Hey simone, On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 21:49:07 +0200, Simone Rota wrote:
Hi,
I discussed this proposal privately or on irc with different people, I'll try to formalize it here.
I think it would be nice to offer access to a dedicated svn repository on crux.nu to 3rd party contributors (the current 'contrib') Sounds like a good idea.
The main motivations behind this proposal are the following: [...] As a general note, I'm proposing to simply act as a service provider, and let the community auto-regulate itself. We have to come to some agreement to which degree we want to control this (i.e. play police). Contrib has been working quite well in this regard, however it still required an occasional check for hidden duplicates (i.e. by using slightly different names).
Related topics:
These are somehow related to the introduction of a crux.nu hosted contrib and general repo setup: [...] - Introduction of project specific repositories: gnome, mythtv, kde, etc. has been suggested. I'd like to see that too, however we'll have to make sure it doesn't become a nightmare due to too many repositories (also because of inter-repository dependencies).
- Maybe we can take the chance of solving the long time due task of organizing the repository in a multi-arch friendly way and eventually put together tools & guidelines. Sounds good, although I don't think the actual hierarchy has a major influence here... but we can discuss this further once we get to it.
Thanks for your initiative, Regards Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch