On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
If all CDD projects where under Topic->Debian->Customising (or whaver category), I would get the same result: just write in the doc "CDD projects can be found here".
This is also fine for me. My point of view was not very strong connected to these categories (perhaps I'm to directory / technical centric). Just feel free to fix the documentation into this direction.
Creating an Alioth project is really straight for the system administrator, and considering that a CDD is typically a long lasting project it worth the effort of requesting a new project and wait for it.
The question is whether you really win something doing that. IMHO separating is kind of hiding from the view of people doing technically the same thing. Alioth is a technical (at least in my view) organisation and your user audience will probably find other places to search for the result of your work than grabbing the code from SVN.
Furthermore consider that according to
http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
there are ~30 debian based distro, and I guess the document is out dated and the number is currently raising (as tbm said during the workshop in Florence).
Now consider having them all under the same Alioth project, with an average of 3 developers for each CDD, with the relevant commit notifications, mailing list messages, released files, possible GForge trackers, etc. it would probably be a mess.
Well, this is absolute no argument. CDD is about *reducing* the number of similar distributions and if you would like to take over the task to find out the differences of all these childrens distros, I'm keen on your reasons why they all make sense. I'd vote for one CDD for children (I do not mean education here - just for playing around) with the name Debian-Jr. It should be that flexible that all people who *really* need something which is not possible to integrate here could take over and build their derived distribution (from Debian-Jr as well thought basis for this stuff). I doubt that Alioth admins would create 30 different children distro trees separately.
The point IMO is that having everything in one single project doesn't scale very well. Look at sourceforge project, for example, each one has it's own page, cvs, ml, etc, and everybody is happy with it.
Well, as I said this depends from your point of view if you see CDD as *one* project using the same tools. If you see really an advantage to keep your stuff separately - just gof for it. It is free. But please - for the sake of your own success - document it apropriate.
Kind regards
Andreas.
