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RE: ITP moratorium still in effect?
- From: "GARY VANSICKLE" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:17:13 -0600
- Subject: RE: ITP moratorium still in effect?
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >Is the ITP moratorium declared in
> ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-03/msg00036.html> still in effect?
>
> Nope. Daniel's back. Sorry that I never made that clear.
>
> I'd like to explore new methods for getting packages into the
> distribution, however.
>
> Possibly we need a gdb packages steering committee which decides on
> these things. It could have rules like "a package needs a simple
> majority vote to be a candidate for inclusion". I'd envision seven
> people on the committee. I have names in mind but the only two
> definites are really Corinna and me, both of whom would also have veto
> power.
>
> I'd also like to see a formal justification for why a package should be
> included, remembering that we have a "software" web page at cygwin.com
> which can be used to advertise packages that aren't quite up to snuff
> for the cygwin release. I think we have accepted a couple of packages
> here
> which really only deserve to be advertised on the web site.
Keep in mind that encouraging "unofficial" packages in this manner will:
1. Result in more packages that aren't reviewed by anybody (e.g. Harold)
and hence don't meet necessary Cygwin requirements (esp. FHS).
2. Ergo will result in messages to cygwin@ of the template: "<software
web-page package> totally screws up Cygwin".
3. Ergo will raise CGF's blood pressure to dangerous levels.
4. Ergo will result in long, unproductive cygwin@ threads trying to tell
the OP what one sentence could: "You're on your own with these packages".
I agree the "lets add everything" situation is problematic, but I don't
think encouraging people to use a method that has the smell of semi-support
is going to do anything but make matters worse.