[Sugar-devel] Gambiarra game

[Daniel Narvaez]

(Assuming the policy is not obsolete or something, I think we should move
it to developer.sugarlabs.org).


On 24 December 2013 21:51, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way, we seem to have a non responsive maintainer policy already.
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> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Policy_for_nonresponsive_maintainers
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> Any reason we are not following it?
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> On 24 December 2013 21:49, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 24 December 2013 15:10, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 08:49:02AM -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
>>> > IMHO, the git rep is less the issue than the ownership on ASLO. git is
>>> > set up for forks, ASLO less obvious. I can give Alan joint ownership
>>> > on ASLO. (The versions available from Luiz will still be available
>>> > even after Alan uploads new ones.)
>>>
>>> I don't see how ASLO is critically different in comparison with git.sl.o
>>> in this case (passing ownership).
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>> ASLO is more similar to a distribution than to gitorious repositories and
>> distributions usually have non-responsive maintainer policies
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>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers
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>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa
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>>> At the end, the important thing is that
>>> both versions should be available for users (the original version, and
>>> the one which was improved by new developers). It is hardly possible to
>>> have only one download entity [on ASLO].
>>>
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>> If we have to choose, I think it's more important to make an improved
>> activity available then old versions provided by the original maintainer.
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>>> In any case, that might be a topic for SN (as an ASLO's superset)
>>> to handle this kind of issues in the future.
>>>
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>>  We can reevaluate when SN takes over, but given the current
>> infrastructure I think giving Alan joint ownership is the most pragmatic
>> approach.
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> --
> Daniel Narvaez
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