[OT] Re: CVS Access Lists WAS Re: [PD-dev] sourceforge tarball problem

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Thu Nov 7 22:40:22 CET 2002


Great idea.  This could also serve as a central place to look up
maintainers/creators of various parts of pd, externs, docs, etc.

.hc

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote:

> 
> Hello.
> 
> Currently I'm not a real PD developer but I would be happy if the owners
> of modules on the CVS PD repository would state clearly what is the
> procedure for working on their code or submit patches or whatever
> policy they like and feel confortable with.
> 
> They could write a message here and copy it on a file in the main
> directory of their modules.
> 
> It's sort of description of your toes, so to speak.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.
> 
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, guenter geiger wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Chris McCormick wrote:
> > > [perhaps stating the obvious]
> > > Infact, I'd say that the whole basis of open source development is about social protocols rather than programatic protocols. Anyone
> > > could take the sources to the Linux kernel or Pd and rename it to "McCormix" or "unpure-data" a lot like what happened with Xemacs.
> > > But as long as the project has good maintainership like Miller or Linus provide, people will continue to follow correct social
> > > protocol and defer their additions/modifications of the source to that central maintainer.
> > > In a way this is the perfect blend of democracy and socialism. If only we could design the code of governance and law in the same way
> > > maybe we'd live in a utopia. That or total anarchy, which might be just as fun.
> > > [/perhaps]
> > hola,
> >
> > this is very similar to what I wanted to say. I am pretty sure we have a
> > social control system already in place so we do not need additional
> > control.
> >
> > On the other hand I think it is better to have as many externals in place
> > as possible, so if someone really feels a need for more control, go ahead
> > and implement it for  your externals (or .. ask me for permissions, tell
> > me how to do it etc ...)
> >
> > I will not have time for this before next tuesday though ...
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Guenter
> >
> >
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