Re: Ideas about allowing Co-maintainer
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:47:03AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> writes:
> >
> > <quote>
> > The purpose of Alioth, as stated on
> > http://alioth.debian.org/tos/tos.php, is to provide facilities for
> > specific kind of projects :
> >
> > * Free software or free documentation (as defined by the Debian Free
> > Software Guidelines) authored by Debian developers, or free
> > software/documentation where a Debian developer is part of the core
> > team.
> >
> > * Free documentation concerning Debian or any of its derivatives.
> >
> > * Other projects (non-software, non-documentation) whose goal is to
> > promote Debian.
> >
> > * Other projects (non-software, non-documentation) whose goal is to
> > promote free software in general, if those initiatives are backed by
> > Debian or by a group a Debian developers.
>
> A sponsor would certainly count as "backed by a group a(?) Debian
> developers", a very small group though. :)
Based on the above bullet point, the group of developers only applies to
"projects whose goal is to promote free software in general" which does
not apply to mediamate (moviemate). The goal of mediamate is to provide
a simple to use media tracking/loaning system, nothing more.
> Is that "a" your spelling or an error on the page? Alioth being down,
> AGAIN, one can't check.
That is a direct quote from the rejection message I received from
Alioth.
--
Jamin W. Collins
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you absolutely need it. -- Vineet Kumar
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