From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlX8B-0000DM-4a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:07:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86719E0925; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74D2E07D0 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E521B402A for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:07:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.524 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.524 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.075, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tjqQMzLQDd24 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B4F1B4066 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:07:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlX7U-0002Kq-8u for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:07:08 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:07:08 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:07:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: OSS-QM again ... Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100817155849.GA24806@nibiru.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies; GIT a971f44 branch-testing) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 476a5c20-5191-47ff-a3c5-3a8713fdb7ef X-Archives-Hash: eb0b1a8a715e8c5e9234bc6e5eaad1b1 Mike Frysinger posted on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:55:25 -0400 as excerpted: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> That's yet another reason why I'd like package maintainers to push >> their changes into the oss-qm repo. That would be a great help for >> others having to deal with the same package. >=20 > nothing is stopping individual maintainers from contributing to your > project. however, that doesnt mean you need to keep broadcasting > updates to an unrelated list (like any Gentoo list). start your own > mailing list and get people to subscribe to it. -mike FWIW, you (Enrico) might get more traction if you go a more "official"=20 route. Do the whole FLOSS PR bulletin thing, announcing thru LWN,=20 LinuxMag, LXer, etc. Slashdot and the like wouldn't be bad, either. Mak= e=20 it look like a proper community service, perhaps even commercial or semi- commercial, ala github or the like. Get a couple projects using it and i= t=20 may well take itself from there. The problem with doing it this way is that there's no official=20 recognition, no CYA if a project decides to try to use it and then, for=20 whatever reason, the sources get compromised somehow. I mean, what would= =20 it look like if Gentoo did start using it, and then it got compromised=20 somehow? Nobody recognizes the name, so all the stories on it would be=20 "well, it serves them right for not checking out the folks who they have=20 providing the service." Once it's a recognized "official" service of som= e=20 sort, perhaps with a commercial link, at least some of that goes away. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman