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Samuli Suominen posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:32:22 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> imho we should contact the sysrescuecd developers and suggest more close |
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> cooperation, such that it could be called official install media in |
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> gentoo-terms |
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I've wondered for years why gentoo invests all that effort into creating |
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its own install media, when there's many dedicated projects out there |
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whose whole purpose is live install/rescue media. It has always seemed |
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to me that we'd be better off simply using one of them and saving the |
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effort for something closer to our core competency/mission. |
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Yes, there's some pride in being able to say we're self-hosting. But is |
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it /really/ worth it? To me personally, the answer has always been no. |
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But gentoo, like most volunteer projects, is very much a "scratch your |
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own itch" type of thing. As long as there's gentoo devs with that |
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itch... but /is/ there, any more? |
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And given that sysrescuecd is gentoo-based, there's a good argument to be |
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made that having it as it our official install media isn't giving up on |
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self-hosting at all. In fact, by declaring it our official installer |
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even as we recognize its independent place in the larger FLOSS community, |
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we're recognizing its value and importance not only to us, but to the |
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larger community of which we are a part. |
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Thus definitely ++. |
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The one big concern I have is that in our approach to the srcd folks we |
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make clear we're *NOT* attempting to take over their project. That's the |
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sensitivity I see with the co-branded idea. I'd actually prefer that we |
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NOT do a co-branded thing, unless the srcd folks suggest it (this assumes |
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yngwin's not srcd upstream and thus did indeed just make that offer, I |
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don't know), and simply cooperate a bit more with them, filing bugs (and |
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as their upstream fixing them in gentoo where possible), helping to fix |
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the ppp networking config issues already mentioned, etc, while simply |
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using their releases as they are. If we want to point out that they're a |
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gentoo-based project that we happily endorse in our handbook links to |
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them, great, but I'm afraid a co-branded suggestion from our side might |
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come across as an attempt to take over, and that'd benefit absolutely no |
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one! |
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-- |
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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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