Hai,
In the vote on principles it became clear that we lost the rules on
what makes a contributions. To have something ive placed
the following file in CVS (in the root of contributions). Please
correct any language errors ive made in this fine and place
comments on the dev-list if you don't agree (i am doing this from
memory even google count not fine the rules anymore).
----- README.txt --------
This is the contributions cvs of the MMBase Opensource project
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It contains projects created by one or more of the MMBase commitors that
they would like to share among themselfs, other developers or users.
Each contribution has its own directory based on its name and has to
includea README.txt explaining what it is, who maintains it and how
it should be used.
Unlike projects in the applications cvs these are not maintained by
the MMBase
commitors as a whole and if you use these you can only fallback to
the commitor(s)outlined.
To get a name/space in this cvs you need to ask for a vote on the
MMBase developerslist. The other commitors will use the following
checklist to come to a possitive vote :
- Is there a description of the project that gives you a good idea
what the end result will be.
- Is there a maintainainer (with commitor state)
- Is it MMBase related
- Does it have a valid opensource license (this is not a place to get
free cvs space for commercial projects)
- Does it have value to others in the community. This can be as a
total product or as a source to copy/modify/steal code (this is
opensource afterall)
Once you pass the vote you can start using the space, but other
commitors can ask for a vote to remove it at some stage in the future
if the outlined rules are not followed or if there is no effort to
keep the contribution valid with newer releases of MMBase.
A good contribution does its best to follow the MMBase build system
and work on the head cvs of mmbase or atleast the last released
version. If possible it should also follow the normal install methods
(See PACKAGE-README.txt) or provide clear instructions in english in
its README.txt how to use it. Unlike in applications these are not
demands but we prefer it so others have some idea how to use or
understand your contribution.
Thank you for sharing your work,
The MMBase Community.
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