On Wednesday 25 July 2007 20:14, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > The board is distinct from the developers. The board is there to make > decisions that affect the direction of development (do we deviate from > the RS274NGC spec, do we add features for 23-axis machines ...), > decisions about things like distribution and websites, that sort of > thing. Also, when situations arise that concern things like potential > GPL violations or other licensing issues, the board is there as an > authoritative body to communicate with outside parties.
The "board's" original mandate was to "guide the development of EMC and to oversee a move towards GPL". It was also charged with "acting as a point of contact between outside interests and developers" along with "resolving GPL and copyright infringements". To date, certain "board members" have taken it upon them selves to move the CVS repository away from Sourceforge without consultation with either developers or project administrators. The code base consists of a ragtag mix of (L)GPL, public domain, BSD/MIT, RA, and possibly proprietary code, but there is no desire to audit the source. As a consequence, it is quite likely that any claim to GPL is unenforceable so the "board" would rather abdicate responsibility for resolving "licensing issues" to the first Tom, Dick, or A*** that takes up the knobkerrie. > In essence, the board is mostly uninvolved with day-to-day development, > as I see it. Correct - Adding of features and functionality is for project administrators & developers under the guidance of the "board". However, the "board" members get elevated to project admin status and now run their own fork on an untrusted server. Perhaps one day, the repository will be restored to it's rightfull home and we can move away from 'cargo cult' and 'crack crazed monkey' programming paradigms to producing a package that builds and runs on any Linux base. If it is any consolation, the current "official" release goes tits up with a 2.6.20 kernel, and by the time 2.6.30 comes out, major surgery will be required. --- Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
