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

[José Luis García Pallero]

Hi all,

Packages maintained by me: OctPROJ and OctCLIP

My vote: option 2.1

I think offering the possibility of accept independent packages could
attract more contributors

Best regards

2017-01-10 13:51 GMT+01:00 Olaf Till <address@hidden>:
> 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.
>
>
> Feel free to give arguments for a choice (I'll do it also in my vote),
> but please keep your vote at a prominent position in your e-mail. You
> can also give arguments in a sparate e-mail before you vote, or if you
> don't vote, or if you aren't a maintainer at all. In fact it could be
> advisable to first read some arguments and to vote afterwards.
>
> I hope this works... if it works, I think one week is enough for vote
> collection. That is all very informal...
>
> Olaf
>
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