[Sugar-devel] Gambiarra game

[Daniel Narvaez]

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On Tuesday, 24 December 2013, Walter Bender wrote:

> It is current and we should be following it, IMHO.
>
> -walter
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > (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<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> By the way, we seem to have a non responsive maintainer policy already.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Policy_for_nonresponsive_maintainers
> >>
> >> Any reason we are not following it?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 24 December 2013 21:49, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 24 December 2013 15:10, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at sugarlabs.org<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> 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).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ASLO is more similar to a distribution than to gitorious repositories
> and
> >>> distributions usually have non-responsive maintainer policies
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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].
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> In any case, that might be a topic for SN (as an ASLO's superset)
> >>>> to handle this kind of issues in the future.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  We can reevaluate when SN takes over, but given the current
> >>> infrastructure I think giving Alan joint ownership is the most
> pragmatic
> >>> approach.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Daniel Narvaez
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Narvaez
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>


-- 
Daniel Narvaez
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