Re: Google Summer of Code 2006
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
I see your point. Maybe we should update the wiki then, and talk about
"internal" and "external" CDDs (or whatever naming we prefer) with
respect to Debian. The list at the bottom of the wiki includes, for
example, both projects like Debian Junior and Debian Med, which I
think are fully "internal" CDDs, and others like Skolelinux Lliurex
and A/DeMuDi, which as far as I can tell are "external" CDDs as the
My personal understanding was that they are "CDDs in spe" in the sense
that our CDD tools are not yet fit to solve their needs and my dream
of a Summer of code work would be to enhance the tools to get rid of
the show stoppers here.
ship some packages which are not in Debian (e.g. the ones holding
customization data, or rebuilds of official packages) and have
different release schedules.
We talked about ideas to decouple the release schedule inside
Debian. The issue is not yet solved but there are chances to
get this working.
Well, I definitely agree that being all "internal" would be the ideal
solution and "the right way". However in the real world this is not
possible, especially if you are delivering a CDD as product to some
customer. Maybe you need to see your patch applied in some package,
and the official maintainer is slow or busy or simply he thinks
different than you: in such a case you are compelled to build your own
version of that package. Or maybe you have a deadline and you can't
wait for the next Debian release. This doesn't necessary mean that you
are "forking", at least if you do so you should strive to get you
changes eventually integrated back to Debian. At least this is what I
found myself to do.
Didn't we talked about enhancing Debian in the scope of CDD?? ;-)
If we would get a lever on slow or busy maintainers because CDD
will become some _internal_ importance by implementing more maintainer
groups for important packages - why should we ignore this lever?
As I said, it might not yet implement any feature we needs, but the
code is there, and I think is a very good starting point.
How does it compare to the toolkit Sergio announced? There
are at least two starting points.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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