On 2017-02-28 01:02-0000 Ray Donnelly wrote: > More people writing recipes is good, adding new ones is good but it > increases the packaging burden on Alexey. New people coming in and > helping out with existing recipes so that the current developers don't > have as many to deal with is great. My hope was that more developers > from upstream projects would see MSYS2 as a way to satisfy the dire > need for good package dependency management and therefore elect to > maintain recipes for their projects in MSYS2 directly, but that's not > happened as much as I'd like.
Hi Ray: I suggest you put most of those words directly in your wiki.... Most of my knowledge of free software distributions concerns Debian. There are now ~1000 developers (see <https://www.debian.org/vote/2016/vote_001_quorum.log>) each of whom typically strongly identifies with and maintains certain Debian packages. (I think that is equivalent to maintaining your existing recipes in your terminology.) In Debian's case, those developers are the heart and soul of that project, and I suspect if MSYS2 is to have long-term viability your existing recipe maintainers must also be given an important status within the MSYS2 project. Otherwise, I suspect the result will be the current MSYS2 status (not enough recipe maintainers). Note I don't want to come on too strong here because I don't have access to Windows (other than Wine) so my only interest in MSYS2 is because other PLplot developers who do have access to Windows find it to be a powerful platform for building and testing our software. So although I will probably never use it myself, I do wish your project the best, and I hope my posts concerning what other distributions of free software have done with regard to maintaining packages, having two-tiered rolling releases with different stability, etc., will give MSYS2 developers some useful ideas about the way they want their project to evolve. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
