Re: CDDs projects on Alioth
|--==> Andreas Tille writes:
AT> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
AT> I do not want to force anybody who is maintaining free software and I do
AT> not want to. But I obviousely did a wrong statement in the docs (which
AT> (... please read here ...
AT> I do not want to force anybody who is maintaining free software and I'm not
AT> able to do so.)
>>Well, when I wrote about those 30 derivative distros, I did mean that
^^^^^^^^^^^
Errata corrige: I did *not* mean! (Freudian lapsus?)
>>I expect all of them to put their sources on Alioth or integrate with
>>Debian.
AT> Ben clarified this to me...
>>It was just an example to show that keeping all present and
>>future CDDs in the same project can eventually be problematic, given
>>the number.
AT> ... and I think that most of them are not really potential CDDs
Maybe not *them* as they are *now*, but similar projects which are
starting to bloom inside the Debian community on in the neighbourhood.
>>I was just wandering if we should have some guidelines for at least
>>*our* projects, as CDD mailing list members and Debian insiders.
AT> Yes, guidelines was definitely the thing I was wondering about.
>>Yes, having a common place *does* help, but I think this can be
>>accomplished by having different Alioth projects rooted in the same
>>directory. This assures both visibility and independence.
AT> May be it is just a lack of knowledge on my side about alioth projects.
AT> If it is possible to root different projects in one tree this is exactly
AT> what I intended. If it is not possible to build such projects under the
AT> cdd/projects root (which was originally the idea of Otavio and me when we
AT> created this tree) but it is possible in an other way I would move
AT> Debian-Med (and I guess Ben would do so with Debian-Junior as well) to
AT> the other common place.
By "rooted in the same directory" I mean a new directory in the
Project Tree [0].. Imagine the entry "Customising" just below
"Packaging" in this page:
http://alioth.debian.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=273
and CDD that need their own Alioth project listed in this directory.
>>IMO the great challenge for Debian is how to let even commercial
>>derived distribution to be as much as possible regular CDD. That would
>>be great source of man power and quality assurance, and everybody
>>would benefit it. My understanding is that this what the UserLinux [0]
>>project is all about.
AT> Sure. But IMHO they (which means UserLinux and others) have to declare
AT> their interest to do so and their requirements (like creating projects
AT> on alioth or whatever) first before we can do anything for them.
I think that once tools are in place and we as CDD pioneers exit the
experimental phase, then more will join.
Cheers,
Free
[0] http://alioth.debian.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php
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