----- Original Message ---- > From: Brad Nicholes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jesse Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ganglia-developers > <ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:48:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] [Ganglia-svn] SF.net SVN: > ganglia:[1538]trunk/monitor-core/Makefile.am > > >>> On 7/10/2008 at 12:52 PM, in message > , "Jesse Becker" > wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 13:15, Brad Nicholes wrote: > >> I'm OK with it either way. If we add contrib/ to the package, then we > > should still have someplace where we put stuff that we like and think is > > valuable, but haven't approved yet. Does that make sense? However a > > download page on the wiki or some other kind of web directory listing might > > make it easier to reference for the user. > > > > This is exactly what "contrib" directories are for: things that are > > useful and worth distributing as a courtesy, but are *not* directly > > supported by the main development team. If something is ever > > promoted/taken over by main developers, then it gets removed from > > contrib/, and added into the "proper" location elsewhere in the > > project. > > So what does that mean? Should contrib/ be part of the tarballs, snapshots, > releases or just an SVN repository location for misc. stuff? >
I personally would put them into any archive that gets into the hand of developers: tarballs, src-RPMs, ... They don't neccessarily have to be part of the binary packages. On the other hand, would it hurt? What about "/usr/share/ganglia/contrib/" ? Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
