Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > So I've been investigating using Tumbler (thumbnailing daemon) in a > project I'm working on. OBS Trunk had Tumbler 0.1.1 -- very old -- so I > naturally grabbed upstream git and started patching it to suit our > needs, with the aim of updating OBS Trunk to the latest release this > week before the feature freeze. > > Then I find out that Tumbler 0.1.12 was just submitted to Trunk:Testing > by Maitrey Mishra from Nokia. This confused me greatly because the > upstream (XFCE-hosted) Tumbler is currently version 0.1.6 (released > January 16th 2011). > > Does MeeGo have a policy on hostile forks that don't change name but > continue the versioning as if they were their own? I'd expect the > policy to be "don't do that" but apparently not, because this isn't the > first instance that comes to mind. > > Ross
Hi Ross, note that I had mentionned some similar issues back in October [0], in meego-dev. I was not satisfied by the answers back then, and I'm really not comfortable with this way of treating with other upstreams: I don't think it's correct to hijack a project's name and codebase. Looking forward to enlightenment statements on those actions; cheers, OdyX [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.meego.devel/6417 _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
