[Forgot to CC Debian OpenStreetMap Team <pkg-osm-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org> in my first posting at https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2013/07/msg00012.html]
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:34:36PM -0700, Hamish wrote: > Andreas: > > if you ask me it is a bad idea to split GIS and OSM into different list. > > there is some package maintainer overlap, but in general they come from two > different communities with two different approaches and two different sets > of upstream developers + end-product goals. Did you read my full posting? Did you noticed that I was arguing out of experience between two different groups in another project? What do you think about joining to groups with some admittedly different approaches but also a lot in common to reach some critical mass together? Have you ever heard about pkg-perl team with > 1000 packages which definitely have different sets of upstream developers + end-product goals? Pkg-perl is IMHO one of the most successful teams inside Debian and regarding the packages they are way more distinct than OSM and GIS. > so while I'm always eager for more inter-project communication, I don't > think I'd try to forcibly mush OSM + the OSGeo stack together into a single > box. In Free Software world there is no such thing like forcibly doing anything. We just could try to reach some consensus to use a common Vcs and mailing lists. So in case a maintainer of a package that is currently maintained by pkg-osm would decide to use Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> as maintainer address and move the packaging to git.debian.org/pkg-grass would you tell him he should not do this? What else would a merge of the groups mean other than people use common communication channels and development Vcs? I do not see any reason to "forbid" people joining and if OSM people do not want to join (for whatever reason) we can not do much about it. >From my point of view the only thing that might cause hesitation for a merge is the term "grass" in the name of the repository / developer list of the Debian GIS project. This term might OSM people (and other GIS people) simply scare away because it somehow implies that the project is about GRASS exclusively. I personally would have choosen the Git migration[1] to also choose a more generic name for the team. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/Svn2Git -- http://fam-tille.de _______________________________________________ Pkg-osm-maint mailing list Pkg-osm-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-osm-maint