[Sugar-devel] Gambiarra game

[Walter Bender]

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> wrote:
> (Assuming the policy is not obsolete or something, I think we should move it
> to developer.sugarlabs.org).
>
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> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 24 December 2013 15:10, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at sugarlabs.org> 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.
>>
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>> --
>> Daniel Narvaez
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> --
> Daniel Narvaez



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Walter Bender
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