Re: OF package maintainers please vote: Scope of OF?

[PhilipNienhuis]

Olaf Till-2 wrote
> Dear all,
> 
> there is no new person authorized to initialize a vote on Octave
> Forge, but maybe you see the need for it, although I'm not the right
> person to start it.
> 
> After a controversial discussion in the thread "...looking for a new
> leader..." and a similarly controversial off-list discussion
> initalized by Julien with Oliver and me, I think the first principal
> issue to decide on is the following:
> 
> There are two different main concepts proposed for OF:
> 
> 1. Simply maintain a list of packages, hosted elsewhere.
> 
> 2. Continue to execercise some central control onto contained
>    packages, making the package maintainers potentially bound to some
>    majority- or admin-decisions.
> 
> For 2., two subvariants have been proposed:
> 
> 2.1. In addition to the controled packages, maintain a list of
>      independent packages, checked only for some formal structural
>      conformance, which are primarily hosted elsewhere. OF contains
>      'copies' of the external repositories, synchronized at least at
>      release time. The package maintainer has exclusive control, if OF
>      decides to fork the package, a different package name must be
>      used.
> 
> 2.2. Only the controled packages are contained in OF.
> 
> Of course, each choice requires that some person(s) is(are) willing to
> maintain OF. If this is the case can only be seen later.
> 
> I think the OF package maintainers should decide on this. If you vote,
> please indicate which OF package(s) you maintain.
> 
> Please indicate if you prefer 1. or 2..
> 
> In case of 2., please indicate if you prefer 2.1. or 2.2.

(I'm maintainer of the io- and mapping packages and someday I might take
over linear-algebra as well)
I have a very slight (55 % vs 45 %) preference for 2.2, because of the extra
work involved with 2.1.
However if that extra work can be shifted towards the maintainers of those
independent packages I think 2.1 my preference will change into 2.1.

Philip




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