On 15 December 2010 03:35, David T. Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23:25PM +0100, Igor Stasenko wrote: >> >> Hello, community >> >> (preface) there was a discussion about using git for VM sources and >> recently in pharo team, we are also discussed that, and decided to go >> on. >> So i started to look for an options and found that Gitorious is best >> solution for us all. >> In contrast to github, it doesn't charging users when their repository >> grow beyond 300Mb in size. >> And its totally free for open-source projects. > > Igor, > > Thanks for your initiative, and I expect a lively discussion moving forward ;) > > To the community at large, > > We have a wonderful mix of people participating in Squeak/Etoys/Phoro/Cuis > and other projects, some of whom have be participating for many years, as well > as many newer contributors. Regardless of how the VM(s) are managed in the > future, I would ask that everyone with an interest in this please be > respectful > of the people who created the original work for our benefit. In particular, > Andreas, Ian, John, and Eliot have contributed major VM development that > they have made available to us with open source licenses, and Dan Ingalls' > original portable VM is a remarkable piece of work from which we all are > benefiting every day. > > So the meta-comment is: Let's all be respectful of the wishes of the original > authors of these works. >
I am always acting with best intents for all of us. If creating a separate code repository goes against somebody's wishes, please speak. I didn't want to cause any harm. My intent is to make VM development process more open and flexible. > For those doing VM platform work, I would ask also that you take the time > to read the various README and documention files to be found in the platforms > sources, as these often contain guidance as to how the code should be managed, > how contributions can most effectively be made to the original authors, and > of course how to build the VM for each respective platform. > > Thanks everybody! > > Dave > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
