On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 00:05 +0200, Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > On Saturday, 13. October 2007 19:27:05 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:11 +0200, Gunnar Wrobel wrote: > > > The project has advanced far enough though that I feel it is a good > > > time point to declare this a real Gentoo project. > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/index.xml > > Umm... why? Why does a package need a project? Is this not just a > > mail server? > > It's a full-blown collaboration/groupware server and it will likely need a > fair bit of coordination between different herds and maintainers as it > uses several major F/OSS components which (at least until recently) need > patches and integration changes to be usable with Kolab. > > http://kolab.org/about-kolab-server.html > > > I don't mean any offense. I just want to know. Why do we need to > > create a project, which should normally be reserved for wide-sweeping > > changes or things that require massive amounts of coordination? > > Indeed. Having tried to use Kolab on Gentoo before, I assume it will be > the latter that makes a Kolab project reasonable.
Cool. In the future (this is to everyone), can we say this kind of information in the announcement message so we don't end up having to ask such questions? Thanks, -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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