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David R. Morrison wrote:
Here's what makes me very uncomfortable about "memberships" right now.That is an important point to mention and something that even makes me concerned. A member of "something" indeed expects some kind of return for thier "membership". Would I donate 15 bucks a year and not expect something in return from the hardware that was partly paid by those 15$ ? Surely not. Therefore it is a question of organisation.
In my view, one of the key components of Fink is broken. We've lost the ability to create and keep up-to-date a stable tree of packages which have been tested by our user community. This has happened because (a) users don't give feedback, (b) a number of maintainers have gotten busy or otherwise disappeared, and (c) people like me who have sometimes jumped in and done wholesale work on the package database don't have time to do that any more.
If someone becomes a member of Fink, won't they have a right to expect things
like an up-to-date stable tree? Won't they in fact start demanding this,
as something they have paid for?
a) Would new hardware (like a 20 G5 compile farm) make creating a bindist easier?
b) Can we automate this build process as much as possible?
c) Can we grant something different than "regular bin dists updates"
I think it is a matter of arrangement. First of all I wish to learn if the community wants memberships at all. Then Fink Core has to decide if this is something that the Core Developer can be happy with. Once that is somewhat decided we can ask what such "members" would like in return for thier donation.
Right now we cannot. That is abolsutely correctl.I don't see how we would meet those demands.
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