[Sugar-devel] Re-initiate Packaging Team

[Aleksey Lim]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 03:45:58PM +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This a request to relaunch Packaging Team by giving it a bit another
> > meaning that it has before.
> >
> > The main idea I see for this new/old team is:
> >
> >    Let people start sugar in any environment they have in most
> >    convenient way.
> >
> > The team will cover not only questions how sugar is packaged for
> > major GNU/Linux distribution but also:
> >
> > * having Bazaar as a central place of all (out of distro) efforts
> > * building packages that are not(yet/well) packaged
> > * support distros that don't have packaged sugar
> > * run daily snapshot of sugar in as many as possible environments
> > * take care of Sugar Platform dependencies (how many, are they packaged
> >  and make custom build otherwise)
> > * support meta sugar distribution ie just a bunch of repositories of
> >  sugar packages that can be attached to existed system to run sugar
> >
> > BTW, maybe "Packaging" is not appropriate name, any ideas?
> >
> 
> 
> Account Services team is the preferred trade name for small size teams
> engaged in support work (answering questions, or communicating with the
> development team, maintaining builds and their timely releases). Some
> companies use "Internal System Architect" nomenclature too. When team sizes
> grew bigger, this work comes under the umbrella of Members of Technical
> Staff.

Well, I personally prefer something less official/corporate, e.g., Bazaar Team :)

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Manu

-- 
Aleksey