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I have been wanting to try out coreboot for a while now. I'm hoping to get this working on my system right as soon as I send this.
I created a team/project in Launcpad so this branch can be imported into a bazaar branch. There are a few reason I hate to work with svn as a back-end to anything. Those reasons don't really matter though.
The project exists on there and is waiting to be imported. This will mirror your svn repository and offer to let others pull via bzr.
I don't know that you can legally say this can't be done because it's licensed under GNU GPLv2 but I'd prefer knowing you are ok with this or remove it instead. I did link to coreboot.org twice and mention the project is not the official branch/project four different times.
Personally, I like using LP because it also tends to get a project wider known. I don't know if this project needs wider publicity though.
So there's 3 options: 1) You hate it and request that I remove it (which I will do) 2) You don't care either way and feel like ignoring it 3) You like it but would prefer to be admin of team that owns it (I'll hand it over)
Thanks, - -- Michael Lustfield Kalliki Software
Network and Systems Administrator
On 10.12.2009 23:00, Michael Lustfield wrote:
I created a team/project in Launcpad so this branch can be imported into a bazaar branch.
The project exists on there and is waiting to be imported. This will mirror your svn repository and offer to let others pull via bzr.
I don't know that you can legally say this can't be done because it's licensed under GNU GPLv2 but I'd prefer knowing you are ok with this or remove it instead.
Sorry, I have trouble parsing that sentence. Could you please reword it? The coreboot name itself is trademarked, but the source code is available under the GPL v2.
Personally, I like using LP because it also tends to get a project wider known. I don't know if this project needs wider publicity though.
While coreboot definitely appreciates wider publicity, some of us believe that Launchpad will be an overall net loss. I'm not a project leader, so my opinion is just an opinion. Given the fact that quite a few projects had bad experiences with Launchpad, namely that it fragments the community and encourages forking, I'm asking you to remove this project from Launchpad. Feel free to wait for an response from our project leaders if you disagree.
So there's 3 options:
- You hate it and request that I remove it (which I will do)
- You don't care either way and feel like ignoring it
- You like it but would prefer to be admin of team that owns it (I'll hand it over)
Of course we enourage everyone to keep a copy of coreboot on his/her harddisk, regardless of the source control technology they use. Some people run local (non-public) git-svn mirrors, and others work with Mercurial. Feel free to keep your own bazaar mirror on your hard disk as long as it doesn't retrieve the full tree with history from svn on every update (that would cause excessive traffic costs for the private individual who is donating the infrastructure for coreboot).
Regards, Carl-Daniel
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 10.12.2009 23:00, Michael Lustfield wrote:
Personally, I like using LP because it also tends to get a project wider known. I don't know if this project needs wider publicity though.
All publicity is good! :)
I'm asking you to remove this project from Launchpad. Feel free to wait for an response from our project leaders if you disagree.
So there's 3 options:
- You hate it and request that I remove it (which I will do)
- You don't care either way and feel like ignoring it
- You like it but would prefer to be admin of team that owns it
(I'll hand it over)
2) resonates very well with me. It is important to keep in mind that different people prefer different methods of working together, be it using online trackers, mailing lists, centralized VCS, distributed VCS or other parameters. It's good for the project to reach as many as possible.
The failure mode of launchpad would be that an effort is started there, but then just becomes stale while coreboot.org continues to make progress. But as long as there are good references to the main project site I don't think this is a problem.
Thanks
//Peter
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