Re: Plans for next release?
"Michael C. Neel" <[email protected]> Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:01:24 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.albatross.general |
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| Organization | Mediapulse, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
To Dave, yes it will be/is an open source license. We wouldn't change that, and we'll either just do a BSD-style template license or use the Python Software Foundation License, if only for the added feature that it's listed on opensource.org as a blessed open source license. ATM I'm looking at the details of the second (I'm familiar with how to go about the first). On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 05:00, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > Just throwing ideas into the air here, but how about setting up a public > CVS (or similar revision control system) repository for development of > Albatross-based toolkits? > > Object Craft could maintain the "Albatross" branch, which would have a > conservative release policy. The "SnakeSkin" branch, while not being > labeled as a development or unstable branch, would allow new features to > enter more quickly and would have a rapid release cycle. Any number of > development branches could exist for experiments and testing. > > Would it be possible for Object Craft, Mediapulse and the Open Source > community (Debian in particular) to collaborate in this way? So this would be like Mozilla, with both Mozilla suite and Firefox projects. I like the idea because it lets each project tailor itself to the developers closer (Mediapulse not concerned with past code as much as ObjectCraft). I know in the past this has come up and maintaining a public cvs server isn't something objectcraft wanted to get into, and neither would mediapulse, this isn't the only project on our cvs server =). I'll step in here and say though mediapulse can take care of getting the server and details though something like sourceforge, which is pretty much what we would have done anyway. That will give us a public base for a bug system, mailing lists, homepage, cvs server, downloads, etc. I know from first hand experience sf's servers are sometimes a pain to deal with (and down at the worst times for a developer, lol), but they do support a great number of projects that cope so we could too. This way, the only thing objectcraft would need to do it check in albatross to sf's cvs server and keep it in sync with their local server. The project can be called something generic like python-web, with two modules in the cvs server, albatross and snakeskin. Other than the cvs server, and maybe the release tarballs in the downloads section, it's up the the objectcraft guys how much of sf they want to use. Having a mailing list, wiki, etc already I'm sure I wouldn't want to move that if it were us, at least not at the start. If the above sounds good, let me know and I'll get the ball rolling. Mike