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Mike Frysinger posted on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:55:25 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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>> That's yet another reason why I'd like package maintainers to push |
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>> their changes into the oss-qm repo. That would be a great help for |
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>> others having to deal with the same package. |
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> nothing is stopping individual maintainers from contributing to your |
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> project. however, that doesnt mean you need to keep broadcasting |
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> updates to an unrelated list (like any Gentoo list). start your own |
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> mailing list and get people to subscribe to it. -mike |
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FWIW, you (Enrico) might get more traction if you go a more "official" |
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route. Do the whole FLOSS PR bulletin thing, announcing thru LWN, |
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LinuxMag, LXer, etc. Slashdot and the like wouldn't be bad, either. Make |
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it look like a proper community service, perhaps even commercial or semi- |
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commercial, ala github or the like. Get a couple projects using it and it |
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may well take itself from there. |
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The problem with doing it this way is that there's no official |
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recognition, no CYA if a project decides to try to use it and then, for |
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whatever reason, the sources get compromised somehow. I mean, what would |
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it look like if Gentoo did start using it, and then it got compromised |
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somehow? Nobody recognizes the name, so all the stories on it would be |
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"well, it serves them right for not checking out the folks who they have |
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providing the service." Once it's a recognized "official" service of some |
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sort, perhaps with a commercial link, at least some of that goes away. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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