Re: Lists of Maintainers
> Hi,
> >>"Jim" == Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:
>
> Jim> I've got a bit too many things on my plate to do this in a timely
> Jim> manner. Nevertheless, I think it's pretty important.
> Jim> Does anyone else want to take this over?
>
> I'll bite. What were you planning on doing? Can we get an
> effort started by just doing a maintainer ping, asking for the
> location (city, country, latitude, longitude) and massage it into a
> xearthe file?
Basically, I'd start by just sending a message to debian-devel.
Many maintainers will want to send you their location, and I don't
really thing any maintainer who doesn't want to has got to do so.
But one thing: _Please_ also ask everybody how they feel about
redistribution of the supplied information. I wouldn't be against
my coordinates being distributed in a debian xearth package, or
even somewhere globally visable on www.debian.org, but others may,
and you could get into trouble if you didn't ask this before.
Somethign like:
How can we redistribute the information about your location:
[ ] Can only be distributed amoungst debian developpers
[ ] Can be put in a debian xearth package, but not distributed
outside (this is a _very_ silly option, but the current
statment in xearth.debian, see below).
[ ] Please consider this GPL (or free-er), can be distributed
to anywhere.
This _is_ important, as the current xearth.debian file has the note
that it can only be distributed in a _debian_ xearth package. This
means (DFSG) that that debian xearth package can _not_ be distributed
with debian[1], so that it cannot be distributed at all. For this reason,
all people listed in xearth.debian need to be written and asked for
permission to distribute this in a _true_ (DFSG) debian xearth package.
> This is lo-tech, but is easy to do (I'll collate all
> the data), and will set up an fairly upto date file for all people
> willing to have this data made public.
I'd love it if somebody did this, thanks!
I remember that the old efford also included information about
preferred/home email, and "debian" email.
So, the questionaire may look like this:
----------------
What are your xearth coordinates (note that west of greenich is negative)?
What's your "home" email?
What's your "debian" email?
How can we redistribute the information about your location:
[ ] Can only be distributed amoungst debian developpers
[ ] Please consider it GPL.
----------------
(note that I removed the middle, currently default, copyright option, as
it really is useless. The first one may be of some use, although obviously
it wouldn't help new (not yet) maintainers find a maintainer nearby)
> What do people think? if it is acceptable, I'll send out a
> developer ping explaining this and asking for a pgp-signed reply with
> location data.
I'm not sure we actually need pgp signed statements (who am I going to
hurt if I lie about my location? -- that's different with packages).
But it would probably not hurt.
Footnote:
[1] the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) state that the copyright may
not discrimminate against people/orginaisations. more explicitly,
copyrights that allow distribution by debian only can not
fullfill the DFSG. So, the xearth.debian file currently doesn't
fullfill it, and thus cannot be distributed as a real debian package.
From the current xearth.debian file:
### This file may not be distributed in a public xearth package, or
### any other public package; it may however be distributed in a
### Debian xearth package.
--
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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