>>> On 7/10/2008 at 10:51 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:46AM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: >> >>> On 7/9/2008 at 9:25 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlo >> Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > I was specially interested in getting ganglia-rrd-modify.pl somehow >> > distributed with ganglia, as it will be very useful as an aid for data >> > migrations like the ones that AIX users might need when upgrading to 3.1 >> > (where the disk metric units has changed). >> >> I agree, the ganglia-rrd-modify.pl would be a good addition. But doesn't >> that > mean that we simply move it out of contrib/ and into scripts/ ? Once we all > give it our +1's of course. > > scripts isn't part of the package either (it was never meant to anyway as it > is only used for bootstrapping). > > I think adding contrib makes probably more sense (as is usually done in > other > opensource packages), and as far as we clear the distribution of all those > contributions of course with some nice looking legalese (which I think has > been implicitly granted through the process of getting those files publicly > to the list) > > either way, and just to be clear, I don't think this is 3.1.0 material and > never proposed as such, specially if there is any chance it could somehow > delay it. > > there is always the alternative as you pointed out of just referencing to > those contributions through the web so they can be used (the README.contrib > should be probably updated to include links for clarity) or just do without > them (which I guess could really reduce the advantage of having a contrib > at all and probably discourage some users on providing contributions for > it). >
I'm OK with it either way. If we add contrib/ to the package, then we should still have someplace where we put stuff that we like and think is valuable, but haven't approved yet. Does that make sense? However a download page on the wiki or some other kind of web directory listing might make it easier to reference for the user. Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
