Hi Dieter, A Dimarts 10 Abril 2007 09:52, Dieter escrigué: > Hi Francesc, > > I was getting familiar with bazaar and learned of LaunchPad > <https://launchpad.net> which is new free software project management > and hosting site. It's nice in that it utilizes bazaar's distributed > vcs and unifies many foss projects in one location. An individual > developer can have a page with branches for many projects. > > I went a head and registered PyTables there > <https://launchpad.net/pytables> which will give more exposure to > pytables as well as provide a central location for others to > contribute to it. Is this OK with you? > > PyTables trunk is mirrored there now, and any individual can start > their own branch seamlessly and with an organized framework that won't > interfere with the main development branch, naturally. > > If you like this Idea, or if you'd rather keep all development > contributions on the Pytables site, let me know. If you like the idea > then I will update the development page on the pytables site to inform > others of it.
Well, I wasn't aware of Launchpad service, and I must confess that it looks great. In principal, it seems a good idea in that it opens more the door for an easiar way for users to contribute code. Having said that, I'm not entirely conviced that this is going to be a good idea for the PyTables project. Let me expose some of my worries: - It looks like a completely new PyTables site. This means that, at minimum, a big warning should be put in the home page (https://launchpad.net/pytables) saying that this is an *alternate* site so as to easy the branching of PyTables and make it clear that this is its *main* purpose. - Launchpad has sections for reporting bugs and asking questions. A naive user that finds this site first might tend to think that this is a good place to file bugs or asking questions about official branches of PyTables and it is clearly not. - As it is another place where users can find PyTables sources, we should care to maintain a minimum coherency between the main home (www.pytables.org) and this one. For example, the logo that you have chosen for it is ok, but what if we want to change it anytime soon? we must remember to update this site as well. Of course, this task is a trivial one, but it is just to let you know that it is *another* site to administer, and seriously, having to maintain both a MoinMoin and a Trac instances already in pytables.org is already a fair amount of work. On the other hand, while contributing code for a project is important for an open source project, I think that contributing *good* code (i.e. code that integrates well, that provides real new features and well documented) is key. And frankly, adding facilities which allows for loosely coupled development, although apparently is a nice idea, I don't think it is going to help too much to make a better PyTables. Well, these are my ideas about all of this. I would like to here more comments because I might be wrong. But in principal, and due to the reasons exposed above, I'm not terribly enthusiastic about the Launchpad site for PyTables. Cheers, -- >0,0< Francesc Altet http://www.carabos.com/ V V Cárabos Coop. V. Enjoy Data "--" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
