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Am Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2013, 23:15:45 schrieb Ulrich Mueller: |
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> >>>>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Andreas K Huettel wrote: |
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> > If you look at our metastructure page, it's a bit of a mess. Some |
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> > careful rearrangement might make sense... How about this: |
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> > 1) top level project "Gentoo Programming Resources" |
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> > - title in table is wrong, should be (according to project page) |
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> > "Gentoo Resources for Programming Languages", or just "Programming |
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> > Languages" |
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> > - has subprojects ada, haskell, ruby |
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> > proposed action: move java, lisp, perl, php, python in there as |
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> > additional subprojects |
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> GLEP 39 defines a project as "a group of developers working towards a |
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> goal". |
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> I don't see what we would gain by collecting several unrelated |
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> projects under an umbrella TLP. Are there any resources that can be |
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> shared, or is there a large overlap between devs working in the |
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> different language projects? In short, what problem are you trying to |
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> solve? |
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Actually for asking this question you've picked the best example... |
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Imagine the poor KDE guys sorting out the language bindings for Ruby, Python, |
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Java, and C#. Each comes with its own approach to solve the same problems, and |
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with its own completely disjunct eclass syntax. |
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Imagine updating your system after a while and then remembering that you need |
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to run python-cleaner and perl-updater (and what was the syntax there again?). |
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Maybe there isn't too much overlap right now, but people talking to each other |
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would certainly help, and the problems are certainly related. |
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This is the most important thing, and similar ideas also apply to the two |
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other proposals. (PR, CoC enforcement and Ops are certainly related tasks?) |
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There's two additional motivations from my side. |
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One is my stereotypical German preference for cleanlyness and order. Or maybe |
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it's just that part of leaving a professional impression is also that you |
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don't just have a messy list of unordered projects. |
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The other one is that on the long run we might reconsider the role of umbrella |
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project leads. I'm not so sure yet what we should do there though... |
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Strengthen, give them tasks? some loose oversight that subprojects follow |
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formalities? Abandon? |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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