On 11/28/10 8:47 AM, "Carsten Munk" <[email protected]> wrote:
>2010/11/28 Michael Leibowitz <[email protected]>: >> On 11/28/2010 06:59 AM, Zhu, Peter J wrote: >>> >>> It¹s not used by any verticals or included in any pkg groups. >> >> How are these decisions made? OpenCV is a computer vision library that >> enables developers to create applications that use image recognition. >>This >> is an area of active interest by several developers and is one of the >>areas >> where developers on competing platforms are making interesting use of >> computer vision to make compelling applications. By removing libraries >>and >> utilities, we simply make it harder for developers to get started making >> something compelling and interesting with MeeGo. >> >> Shouldn't our goal to be to enable the vast amount of software out >>there for >> Linux/Unix that enables application development, rather than removing >> anything that isn't directly used? Aren't we making a distro for mobile >> application developers? > >Disclaimer: I actually like OpenCV, used it for my master's thesis.. > >I think the question is also a bit, where's the FEA# for this, who's >the maintainer and who QA's the APIs provided by OpenCV? > >I thought I saw utility programs denied because of having no FEA# so I >would assume we'd have a FEA# (and a good reason) for having OpenCV as >part of MeeGo. > >In the new project setup [1], I assume OpenCV would be in >Applications/Reference? Maybe we should first delete packages after >reorg when it's more clear what's Core and what's Reference >applications/libs. > I think it comes down to a couple of different things. First, as Carsten states, it has no FEA#. To be specific, we should not be including things in MeeGo.com that do not have requirements to be there. MeeGo.com is a requirements driven program. That said, OpenCV is a useful program and shouldn't be lost from MeeGo. That's why we have the Community OBS (https://build.pub.meego.com/). If someone things it's important, they can volunteer to be the maintainer for it there. Until there are requirements that it's needed in MeeGo.com, it shouldn't be there. Ryan _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
