[SoaS] Policy for activities for downstream inclusion

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 14.09.2010, at 23:15, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In the .deb side of the universe, we prefer tarballs but we can work
>>>> directly from the git repository.
>>>
>>> Is it not still the practice to put tarballs on download.sl.o ???
>>
>> No its not! Sebastian and I got sick of sounding like broken down
>> records so I have no idea of the current status.
>
> Not sure I can parse what you mean. Are you saying it is not current practice but it should be?

It seems it generally doesn't happen. No idea if its policy or not.

> And (from your other msg) why do you want both zip (xo) and tar balls?

I just want sure source code only tarfiles. I presume for a.sl.o
there's a need for ready to run .xo files which may or may not contain
pre compiled binaries.

Peter