Neil, I appreciate your comments very much. From where I sit, I think these “take overs” will be extremely rare but always to the benefit of the community and with ample communication with the creator of the original package. Nobody will take over anyone else’s package by force.
What the community deserves, and what the Dunstable meeting has worked out, is an announcement of when we invoke this rule on a package so that everybody else — not only the previous owner and new maintainer — but everyone knows what’s happening. — Matthias > On Dec 19, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > > No comments on this particular package, but if the package system rules are > going to change in fundamental ways (imagine this were a programming > language), then those changes must be communicated to everyone. > > Also, maybe it's time to think ahead to what other package system rules there > will likely be a desire to change, and get all the rule changes over with at > once, so that we don't get into the habit of changing the rules on people. > > When we're encouraging altruistic third-party contributions through the > package system, and presenting it as open and decentralized, then we have to > be aware of centralized, proprietary behavior that might erode trust and > discourage participation. One thing third parties have to go on, in absence > of formal business relationships and contracts, is the rules or documentation > of how these open-ish systems will work. > > Again, no comment on this particular package; just trying to help the new > package system find the mix of centralized and decentralized that it seems to > be looking for. > > Neil V. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/5675B7F9.3010509%40neilvandyke.org. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/744FAF31-CCDF-4FF4-8288-03A2A89B1313%40ccs.neu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
