Hi, Am 08.09.2014 um 14:42 schrieb Sylvain Joyeux: >> +1 "external" folders mean to me "not maintained by rock developers" >> (exept making them build with autoproj by patches) > > Can you or Matthias explain in practice what is gained by doing this > separation ? How would we deal once let's say a PCL contributor > becomes a Rock developer ? Would we then move pcl to slam/ ? And then > if he leaves we move it back to external ? kind of, yes. When support for a package can be found through the mailing list, it is not external. The folder structure tells users directly whether (good) support can be found on the rock-lists, or not and users of these packages might have to care for themselves. Good support here means that maintainer can also help by fixing bugs in the source, not only the inclusion of the source into autoproj.
> In addition, I start to feel that even external packages should have a > "Rock maintainer", which pushes updates / maintains patches / pushes > the patches upstream (ideally). Right now, it's a free-for-all which > is problematic. This is exactly the answer to your question. When every package gets a "Rock maintainer" the external folder will be empty. If such a maintainer is unavailable, the package goes to external. Steffen > > Sylvain > -- Steffen Planthaber Weltraumrobotik Besuchsadresse der Nebengeschäftstelle: DFKI GmbH Robotics Innovation Center Robert-Hooke-Straße 5 28359 Bremen, Germany Postadresse der Hauptgeschäftsstelle Standort Bremen: DFKI GmbH Robotics Innovation Center Robert-Hooke-Straße 1 28359 Bremen, Germany Tel.: +49 421 178 45-4125 Zentrale: +49 421 178 45-0 Fax: +49 421 178 45-4150 (Faxe bitte namentlich kennzeichnen) E-Mail: [email protected] Weitere Informationen: http://www.dfki.de/robotik ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Straße 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender) Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Kaiserslautern (HRB 2313) USt-Id.Nr.: DE 148646973 Steuernummer: 19/673/0060/3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Rock-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.dfki.de/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/rock-dev
