On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Durk Talsma <d.tal...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
...
> This might not be known to everybody, but the defacto policy is that all
> promotial materials for FlightGear should only contain material that is
> part
> of the official FlightGear repository. In essence, this means that when
> it's
> in CVS, It's okay. The beauty of having one repository (be it centralized,
> as
> with current CVS, or decentalized, should we switch to something like GIT
> in
> the future) is that we can all work collaboratively towards building the
> best
> FlightSimulator ever.
I don't see how that follows from the "beauty of having one repository". I
see the "one repository" model as slowing down all work, collaborative or
not.
> As long as the submitted material adheres to the GPL
> licence, there is no principle limit as to what can go into CVS, with a few
> exceptions. These being 1) world scenery. The world scenery is currently
> maintained as a separate project, and contributions for this can be
> submitted
> there. 2) Liveries. There's been some discussion about adding multiple
> liveries of various aircraft to CVS, and it's currently been left up to the
> individual aircraft developers decide what to include. Because the possible
> number of varieties in livery are seemingly endless, there has been some
> concern that excessive amounts of liveries may bring CVS to it's knees. For
> this reason, a separate (more or less officially sanctified) livery
> repository
> has been set up.
>
> This isn't a different problem from the scalability of the single
repository model in general.
> As follows from this, I have to add that I'm not too excited about all the
> invidual hangars, and scenery repository sites (such as "unitedfreeworld")
> that I'm seeing spring to life right now. I do realize that these sites
> serve
> their purpose as a temporary storage for material that needs further
> refinement, and also accept the fact that some materials simply cannot be
> added to cvs due to the fact that original materials were incompatible with
> the GPL, but apart from these cases, I do believe that it should be
> encouraged
> that eligible materials go into CVS.
>
Do you want 100s of people to be involved with FlightGear development, or
tens of thousands?
I think the individual hangars are great, no matter what their license. I
hope FlightGear better supports multiple data directories in the future. A
single data directory, with a centeral repository, just doesn't scale.
Tim
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