On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 03:01:46PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > That being said, there is certainly a difference between "projects which > > fork Debian to make a new distro (i.e. providing own versions of existing > > Debian packages)" vs. "projects which add packages of their own (outside > > Debian) to extend Debian" vs. "projects which include all of their packages > > in Debian itself (or at least extend Debian's infrastructure itself, if the > > project doesn't have any packages of its own)". Debian Jr. is of the latter > > sort. Which of these three kinds of projects are Mono, ipv6, and ddtp? > > Forks aren't subprojects.
Sure. I just included it as a part of the spectrum for the sake of comparison. > "Projects which add packages or features for packages that already exists or > some sort of experimental infrastructure", these are IMHO good for Debian > subprojects.Debian Jr., Mono, ipv6 and ddtp are covered by this description, > no? It sounds plausible. Debian Jr. is, at least. I didn't look at the others. That's why I was asking you, since you brought it up. :) > Yes, you're the leader of this subproject but IMHO you need be a developer to > start/maintain a new subproject and follow (obviously) the DFSG and the > decisions of the entire project. Sure. So minimally, a subproject needs a DD to found the project and a DD to add what the project produces to Debian. But beyond that fairly self-evident point, what else can we say about what a subproject *should* do? There are probably lots of things that are *beneficial* to making a subproject work, but I can't think of anything else that is *necessary*. > I'm just trying start some points to be > included in the "Debian subproject guidelines". And I'm glad you brought it up. I had hoped to get further with my subproject-howto, but ran out of "oomph" some time ago. :) Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ]