> > Just let the project grow. It does not require anyone jumping into > it to stick with it for long time. All I'm proposing right now is > adopt the model, which makes collaboration w/ other distros easier. > It's something like an aggreement as FHS.
Hope you have the power to go that way far enough on your own until it becomes interesting for more people. > > BTW: meanwhile I've build some automatic import mechanisms > (unfortunately, this approach won't work well for Gentoo, as I > don't have the fundamental data for it available, especially some > deterministic mapping between upstream tarball and the patches > to apply ... that probably would require some kind of fake-emerge) > I did good progress with Gentoo on Cygwin this WE. 3 big packages are directly before me now: Python, Portage and GCC. > Hey, wait a minute ... we were talking about OSS-QM, thats completely > different project. Briegel is a build system (somewhat similar to > portage, but yet quite different concepts behind), which just happens > to work smoothly w/ oss-qm. A build system needs sources and patches to build. So I think they are related. If your patch import system works, it can become very interesting. You can run something similar to Gentoo without the need of a big community at the beginning. So you have all freedom to customize it just the way you want it. Al
