ext Ross Burton <[email protected]> writes:
> Does MeeGo have a policy on hostile forks that don't change name but
> continue the versioning as if they were their own?
No, of course not. I'll figure out what has happened with tumbler, but
it is more complicated than just all of Nokia being evil or stupid or
both behind their corporate walls.
Tumbler was developed jointly by Jannis Pohlman and Philip Van Hoof,
with Philip working on thumbnailing for Maemo. See here, for example:
http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2009/10/28/tumbler
I don't know how close the cooperation is at the moment, and it is very
likely that we indeed have failed to syncronize the releases. Actually,
if someone would claim that XFCE has failed to coordinate with _us_, I
wouldn't dismiss that right away. :)
I can't say yet how to proceed, but would you be happy if we merge the
XFCE and the Maemo code bases, call that 0.2, and agree on the canonical
place to release it from?
> 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.
I think this is unfair. We have a long and wide and exemplary history
of working with upstream projects. We fail sometimes, like here, but
please don't make it sound as if we try to screw someone over.
Still, thanks for the reminder that it is important to stay excellent,
and thanks for pointing out this particular mess.
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