On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
AT> I do not want to force anybody who is maintaining free software and I do AT> not want to. But I obviousely did a wrong statement in the docs (which
(... please read here ... I do not want to force anybody who is maintaining free software and I'm not able to do so.)
Well, when I wrote about those 30 derivative distros, I did mean that I expect all of them to put their sources on Alioth or integrate with Debian.
Ben clarified this to me...
It was just an example to show that keeping all present and future CDDs in the same project can eventually be problematic, given the number.
... and I think that most of them are not really potential CDDs
I was just wandering if we should have some guidelines for at least *our* projects, as CDD mailing list members and Debian insiders.
Yes, guidelines was definitely the thing I was wondering about.
Yes, having a common place *does* help, but I think this can be accomplished by having different Alioth projects rooted in the same directory. This assures both visibility and independence.
May be it is just a lack of knowledge on my side about alioth projects. If it is possible to root different projects in one tree this is exactly what I intended. If it is not possible to build such projects under the cdd/projects root (which was originally the idea of Otavio and me when we created this tree) but it is possible in an other way I would move Debian-Med (and I guess Ben would do so with Debian-Junior as well) to the other common place.
IMO the great challenge for Debian is how to let even commercial derived distribution to be as much as possible regular CDD. That would be great source of man power and quality assurance, and everybody would benefit it. My understanding is that this what the UserLinux [0] project is all about.
Sure. But IMHO they (which means UserLinux and others) have to declare their interest to do so and their requirements (like creating projects on alioth or whatever) first before we can do anything for them.
Kind regards
Andreas.
