Hi Dieter, A Dimecres 11 Abril 2007 02:43, Dieter escrigué: > On 4/10/07, Francesc Altet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Dieter, > > > >[...] > > > > 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. > > > I totally agree with your concerns, and if I can't dispel them with > the following comments, I'll happily remove PyTables from LaunchPad. > Don't worry...won't hurt my feelings :') > > First, let me say that I would like to dedicate myself to Pytables > because my work is totally data centric and Pytables/Numpy is/will be > at the foundation of it. I've greatly respected this project and have > wanted to contribute since way back. > > I'm a full-time, at home, programmer, and my only work is my project. > My thoughts are that.. what I need to develop for my project, could be > enhancements to, and auxiliary compliments of, Pytables core. Believe > me, I respect your time and will always effort to avoid consuming it, > and contribute to pytables an autonomous way with respect to your > leadership. Lastly, just so you know me a little better, I have been > self-employed all my working life, sticking to commitments I make is > quite important to me. > > > As for LaunchPad let me say this, and then I'll remove the > registration on your say so. > > > - 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. > > Besides being a vehicle to promote community contribution to a > project, the purpose of the launchpad framework is also to tie in the > communication from the end-users, distro package managers, and to the > upstream developers, Distro package managers can also create a long > term branch of the project for specific distro configurations. Bugs > have the ability to be cross-referenced along the project's entire > stream. > > The functionality of the site is still in progress. From what I see, > seamless cooperative features are continually being enhanced. There is > a link to the Pytables home page in the middle of the page. It isn't > blaringly noticeable and should be improved (I made a request). For > now, what I did was edit the project description to display links for > the Home Page; How To Use; Bug Reports; the Mailing List; and the > Source Forge page. [...]
Ok, fair enough. I think you have given arguments enough to let PyTables have a chance with the Launchpad service :). In addition, Ivan is also ok with this. Probably Ivan and me will register as administrators for this site as well (it can be convenient for doing some tasks, like changing some descriptions, logo, etc.), but it would be nice if you can act as the main responsible for the site for the time being. I'm mainly interested in seeing that Launchpad can become useful not only to the upstream developers, but specially for distro managers. I really think that providing the easiest path to install PyTables (and most specially its dependecies) is very important for spreading its use, and perhaps Launchpad might contribute to improve the process of packaging PyTables for as much distributions as possible (currently PyTables releases are arriving quite late to distros :-/). Well, let's whish a long life to the new Launchpad site for PyTables! -- >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
