Re: User-contrib, up-to-date stable
harpo@udel.edu (Will Lowe) writes:
> On 23 Oct 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
>
> > I think it is a bad idea to have a directory "anybody can stuff
> > packages into" without a certain control. Possible contributors
> > should only be allowed to upload into an "incoming" directory and they
> > really should have to identify themselves to some maintainer in charge
> > of unofficial packages sending a mail telling him about the upload so
> > that the package can be evaluated for a move to "user-contrib".
> > Surely someone has to take care of this process.
>
> But this is what we have now! A directory that people who have identified
> themselves to a central authority can upload into, and the a maintainer
> who takes care of putting them in the right place.
>
Well it differs actually in regard of the fact that the current
wonderfully functioning setup is targeted only towards the two main
sections 'bo-updates' and 'unstable'. There is nothing so far which
applies to a still not existing 'user-contrib' section (or whatever
you'd like to call it).
Thank you, P. *8^)
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