On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 05:10:31PM +0000, Buchan Milne wrote: > Well, maybe you should consider joining the Mandrake Club Volunteers, to try and > prevent the duplication of effort. A number of people here will know of the RPMs I > make available at http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake, specifically rebuilds from > cooker for previous stable releases. > > The Club Volunteers was started due to people requesting updated RPMs om MF, Deno > has done the effort in organising the logistics, and a while back there was a story > on MandrakeClub for people to post their requests. We are getting organised now, a > lot of RPMs are ready, and the uploads have just started. RPMs will be available in > the Cooker mirrors (like unsupported) except for RPMs with restrictive licensing, > which may go to PLF if suitable, otherwise will stay on the club.
Well I disagree with the idea of only making rpms that I build available via the club. The club's fine and all. And it's nice to have them releasing some commercial stuff that normally was only on the commercial CDs. However, I disagree with the idea of locking RPMs of "free" programs behind the club. Basically I don't mind contributing to the community. But I won't do work for Mandrake that gets locked up for only a few for free. Now if Mandrake want's to pay me to make Club packages that's a different matter. But if I'm doing work for free then I expect my work to be accessible to the public. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
