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On Monday 15 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> However there are a few more things to take into account, |
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> please have a look at my reply to Paul: |
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> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2009-June/ |
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>001759.html |
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> Sorry for not CC'ing you, I should have though of that. |
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> Thinking the other way around: Is there anything we could do |
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> to make the central place approach work and feel better for |
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> everybody? |
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The consumers of the PackageMap will always only use the central |
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database. It is only the populators of the database that would be |
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distributed. |
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I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose |
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their level of contribution. Many developers just won't care enough to |
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take the extra hassle. If you make it easy enough for them to |
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contribute to the CPE mapping, i.e. update their debian/controls or |
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metadata.xml, they will (or not :-). Other developers that care more |
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can then extract the data and merge it at the database and do extra |
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maintenance tasks such as updating the substition map. |
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If you make merging easy, I don't see how this hurts the project. |
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Robert |
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