+1 On Tuesday, 24 December 2013, Walter Bender wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It is current and we should be following it, IMHO. -walter On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez@gmail.com')">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > (Assuming the policy is not obsolete or something, I think we should move it > to <a href="http://developer.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">developer.sugarlabs.org</a>). > > > On 24 December 2013 21:51, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez@gmail.com')">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> By the way, we seem to have a non responsive maintainer policy already. >> >> >> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Policy_for_nonresponsive_maintainers" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Policy_for_nonresponsive_maintainers</a> >> >> Any reason we are not following it? >> >> >> On 24 December 2013 21:49, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez@gmail.com')">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >>> >>> On 24 December 2013 15:10, Aleksey Lim <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'alsroot@sugarlabs.org')">alsroot@sugarlabs.org</a>> 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 >>> >>> >>> <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers</a> >>> >>> >>> <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa</a> >>> >>>> >>>> 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 <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </blockquote> -- Daniel Narvaez