Yes we should do something.
Now the question is how to do something that we can actually implement.
I think that we should
- start to identify package of interest (quality/topics////)
- check their license status
- check the author and get access
- create an inbox
Stef
>
>
> laurent laffont wrote:
>>
>> Sean, could you put your package there ?
>>
>
> The wonderful world of Squeak packages... The package I fixed is Todd
> Blanchard's HTML & CSS Validating Parser at
> http://www.squeaksource.com/htmlcssparser/, not the Scamper HTML from
> http://www.squeaksource.com/HTML, although both packages are called "HTML."
>
> However, this is a lovely opportunity to repeat my call for either (or maybe
> both):
> * (my favorite) create an inbox for each project on SqS, just like for
> Squeak and Pharo trunk, so users can choose between the bleeding edge (which
> would include contributions like this one) or the last officially blessed
> one; but they would all be in the same place and obvious to find.
> * or, send an email to all SqS emails saying that if they don't affirm
> responsibility for their project within X amount of time, the repo will be
> released to the community i.e. made w/r.
>
> I also seem to remember a suggestion at one point to have a list of people
> that were approved to commit to any repo on SqS.
>
> The point is, make it easy to contribute and people will. It is a downer to
> go through the work of fixing packages, only to put them in my own repo
> where they may never be found by users, because the repo is read-only and I
> can't get in touch with the admins.
>
> <rant>
> Also, adding oneself to each repo is RUBBISH!!!!! Even though I usually
> take the time, I shudder at the thought of all the community fixes that were
> kept personally or thrown away because it was a hassle to share them. I'm
> sure many people, like me, just fix things that are broken. This is the
> whole beauty of a live system that's turtles all the way down - my system's
> menus are broken, great, I just spend 20 minutes fixing them for every user
> on the planet vs. the typical X months (if ever) for an OS vendor to get
> around to a fix
> </rant>
>
> Sean
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