The direction seems to make sense, but I'm not the lawyer at OpenDDR, so we may have to check with license/legal advisors. At the moment licenses are not same.
Werner On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Reza <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought the January (1.15) release solved this ‘uncertainty’. So > basically we have a clean slate. Isn’t this just a matter of adding data to > both DDRs for the time being? All the updates to OpenDDR since 1.15 are > clean, right...? > > I am also under the impression that once DeviceMap gets its legs we will > fold up OpenDDR and point everything back to DeviceMap. Right? > > So basically here is what I was asking for: > > 1) Commit all data (and code) updates to DeviceMap under the Apache ‘rules’ > 2) Mirror the commits back to OpenDDR as legacy support > > > From: Werner Keil > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 4:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: DDR data: openddr -> devicemap > > Reza/all, > > Good point. Thanks for raising this. > There could be legal/licensing issues preventing this, but from a pure > technical point of view, mirroring this in either direction (from DeviceMap > to OpenDDR might actually be the easier direction also from a license / > legal perspective) should be not a bit issue. > > In a project some while ago in Austria we did that between Hg and SVN, > doing the same between Git and SVN would not be too big of a deal either. > > Thoughts, opinions? > > Werner > > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Reza <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I was reviewing my upcoming Varnish User Group presentation on device > detection with Bertrand and Werner and an interesting point was brought up, > DeviceMap is not getting updated with the latest and greatest DDR data. > > The OpenDDR data is at 1.18: > https://github.com/OpenDDRdotORG/OpenDDR-Resources > > The DeviceMap DDR is using the original 1.15 data contribution: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/trunk/openddr/data/src/main/resources/devicedata/ > > Personally, I feel this data is one of the cornerstones of the project. > Here is my point and concern: > > -The DeviceMap project should be the primary source for housing and > updating the DDR data. Can we please start keeping the data in the > DeviceMap SVN upto date? > -We need to better present this data as one of the usable aspects of > this project > > My second point leads me to my next goal for this project which is to > really revamp our website to better convey what this project is about: > > -Provided the latest and greatest DDR data, updated monthly. We should > have a link present on our hopepage for users to easy download our DDR data > -Provide source code for developers to embed device detection logic in > their applications > -Provide a device detection web service > -Provide a way for users to test devices against our DDR solution and > submit requests, bug, defects, etc. > > After my presentation next weekend, im going to put 100% of my effort in > hitting my 4 goals for the website. If anyone would like to help, please > let me know. > > Also, here is my VUG presentation. Please look it over and let me know > if you have any feedback. > http://www.rezsoft.org/vug7/dclass.ppt > > Thanks again for everyone’s contribution to this project! > > Reza >
