[Sugar-devel] Re-initiate Packaging Team

[Manusheel Gupta]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> 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 :)
>


Bazaar in Hindi refers to market. Suspect that many people would confuse it
with the marketing team :-)



>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Manu
>
> --
> Aleksey
>
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