On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 12:03 +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:53:06 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote: [...]
Agreed, but the "new contrib" sounds very much like most of the current opt. I disagree. 'contrib' stands for ports contributed from non-developers (or developers not wearing their developer hat), whereas opt are non-core ports maintained by the official developers. The development methology doesn't have any impact on that (even more as there's no user visible change, it's already exported as rsync and httpup from crux.nu).
That's an important differentiation, and the names reflects that nicely.
Yes, and what I'm saying is that with the new contrib, the difference between "developers" (the non-core kind) and "contributors" is close to non-existant, with the exception that the former get to wear a funny character in front of their IRC name. (On the other hand, they must really like it, since unlike most other project channels, they wear it all the time.) So, higher quality requirements for contrib, and higher user count requirements for opt, so that it isn't just a dump for personal pet projects of The Chosen Few.