Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-25 Thread Marja van Waes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/11/2012 12:58, PhilippeDidier wrote: > Is it a joke ? https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Paid_projects > Fiabledotbiz who wrote that page seems to be the same person as the one who filed the bug the page links to (in one of the upstream reports he uses

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 11/24/2012 02:59 PM, AL13N wrote: I'm not following 100%, does this mean there are already quite specific usecases for this? This is conceptually no different than someone offering to pay a developer to engineer a change to a Mageia package for himself. It's open-source, so what's the prob

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Jose Jorge
Le 24/11/2012 20:59, AL13N a écrit : Op zaterdag 24 november 2012 20:52:42 schreef Romain d'Alverny: 2012/11/24 AL13N: like: requiring that the fixes are done in Mageia itself (no 3rd party ... what's wrong with asking that the people who "fix" this do this, to do this in ... and the latte

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread AL13N
Op zaterdag 24 november 2012 20:52:42 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > 2012/11/24 AL13N : > > like: requiring that the fixes are done in Mageia itself (no 3rd party > > repository), and as usual that the fixes are done in accordance to our > > policies. > > You can't: 1) it's free software. 2) those ch

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
2012/11/24 AL13N : > like: requiring that the fixes are done in Mageia itself (no 3rd party > repository), and as usual that the fixes are done in accordance to our > policies. You can't: 1) it's free software. 2) those changes will be first done on a separate repository before being pushed for in

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread AL13N
Op zaterdag 24 november 2012 20:09:05 schreef Romain d'Alverny: > 2012/11/24 PhilippeDidier : > > Sander Lepik a écrit : > >> 24.11.2012 18:55, PhilippeDidier kirjutas: > >>> NO ! > >>> You mean someone is paid and create a third repo for something Mageia > >>> doesn't want to import... > >>> > >>

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
2012/11/24 PhilippeDidier : > Sander Lepik a écrit : >> 24.11.2012 18:55, PhilippeDidier kirjutas: >>> NO ! >>> You mean someone is paid and create a third repo for something Mageia >>> doesn't want to import... >>> >>> If that thing brings a mess into Mageia, we will see bug reports in >>> bugzil

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Filipe Saraiva
I don't have problem with people working in Mageia improvements and receive payment for it, because this improvement will be free software. I remembered this blogpost about payment to develop poppler/Okular features - http://tsdgeos.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/free-software-free-to-pay.html 2012/11/2

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread PhilippeDidier
Sander Lepik a écrit : > 24.11.2012 18:55, PhilippeDidier kirjutas: >> NO ! >> You mean someone is paid and create a third repo for something Mageia >> doesn't want to import... >> >> If that thing brings a mess into Mageia, we will see bug reports in >> bugzilla and lot of time lost by Mageia bug

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Sander Lepik
24.11.2012 18:55, PhilippeDidier kirjutas: > NO ! > You mean someone is paid and create a third repo for something Mageia > doesn't want to import... > > If that thing brings a mess into Mageia, we will see bug reports in > bugzilla and lot of time lost by Mageia bug-triagers, devs, packagers, > b

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread PhilippeDidier
Sander Lepik a écrit : >> So, IMO the offer is something similar to Ubuntu's offer to be able to >> donate to a single project inside the distribution. With a better >> phrasing the page may be ok. Of course the details should be discussed >> in public and after that the option should be advertiz

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
2012/11/24 Johnny A. Solbu : > On Saturday 24. November 2012 15.06, Romain d'Alverny wrote: >> - is it appropriate to host it/link it from mageia.org? > > Whats more, the article author have linked to the articles from the wikis > Front page. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Main_Page A better place w

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Sander Lepik
24.11.2012 17:41, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: > 2012/11/24 Johnny A. Solbu : >> On Saturday 24. November 2012 12.58, PhilippeDidier wrote: >>> Someone want to be paid for his work on Mageia >> I have no problems with people working on mageia for money, as long as they >> adhere to our rules. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2012/11/24 Johnny A. Solbu : > On Saturday 24. November 2012 12.58, PhilippeDidier wrote: >> Someone want to be paid for his work on Mageia > > I have no problems with people working on mageia for money, as long as they > adhere to our rules. If this results in more bugs being fixed, then we

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Saturday 24. November 2012 15.06, Romain d'Alverny wrote: > - is it appropriate to host it/link it from mageia.org? Whats more, the article author have linked to the articles from the wikis Front page. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Main_Page (Why can any registered user edit the Front page?) --

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Saturday 24. November 2012 12.58, PhilippeDidier wrote: > Someone want to be paid for his work on Mageia I have no problems with people working on mageia for money, as long as they adhere to our rules. If this results in more bugs being fixed, then we are benefitting from it. Many of the

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
2012/11/24 PhilippeDidier : > Is it a joke ? > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Paid_projects That's interesting. > Someone want to be paid for his work on Mageia > Does it mean that he will give some money back to Mageia ? > > Such a page might need an agreement before being published ... > don't

Re: [Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread PhilippeDidier
PhilippeDidier a écrit : > Is it a joke ? > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Paid_projects > > Someone want to be paid for his work on Mageia > Does it mean that he will give some money back to Mageia ? > > Such a page might need an agreement before being published ... > don't you think so ? > >

[Mageia-dev] what is this ????

2012-11-24 Thread PhilippeDidier
Is it a joke ? https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Paid_projects Someone want to be paid for his work on Mageia Does it mean that he will give some money back to Mageia ? Such a page might need an agreement before being published ... don't you think so ?