Re: License of the contrib plugins

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> 
> | I don't think the contributed plugins are really in a state to be
> | distributed by Debian given the mission you folks have.  I think it's
> | better to distribute the core (which should be fine) and then tell
> | people to fetch the plugins they're looking for on their own.
>
> Ok.  Since pyblosxom is a lot more useful with them, I think I'm going
> to package them once we have them cleaned up.

How exactly are you going to do that?  Are you just going to include all 
the contributed plugins and users copy them from the /usr/share directory 
(or wherever they're getting placed) to their plugins directory?  Are you 
planning on doing up a configuration script (I'm really not familiar with 
the internals of .deb stuff, but whatever gets kicked off with 
dpkg-reconfigure) for generating the config.py script and setting up the 
permissions?

I'd be interested in any problems you come across with packaging.  At a 
minimum, they'd be good things to think about as time goes on and we make 
changes towards user-friendliness.


> | However, when you say "soon to be released", what does that actually
> | mean? I've been a Debian user for a couple of years now and as far as
> | I understand, Sarge has been "soon to be released" for a couple of
> | years. Are we talking days, weeks, or months?  How much time do we
> | have to work on the contributed plugins issue?
>
> Probably on the scale of a month or two.  I don't know, since I'm not a 
> release manager.  Sarge is being frozen now, and I _think_ all the 
> holdups are now out of the way so we can actually get a release out 
> soon.

I'll see what I can do in the next 5 days in terms of cleaning up the 
contributed plugins for Debian distribution.  Then we'll see where we are 
at the end of the week and figure things out from there.

/will


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