Hi, my € 0.02 are:
+1 for Trunk -1 for 3.1.x and 3.0.x. why am I opposed to the backports? Dwoo introduces considerable new infrastructure that *I* view not suitable for the "stable" and "legacy" trees. Both of them are bug-fix only in my opinion. It is fine for trunk, no question. Does the GPL licensing cause any real issues to end users? Just curious. The situation is pretty old by now anyway. Regards Martin ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de ----- Original Message ---- > From: Brad Nicholes <bnicho...@novell.com> > To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <care...@sajinet.com.pe>; Bernard Li ><bern...@vanhpc.org> > Cc: ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 4:49:03 PM > Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] Replaced TemplatePower with Dwoo in trunk > web >code > > >>> On 9/9/2010 at 7:30 AM, in message <20100909133028.gb31...@sajinet.com.pe>, > Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <care...@sajinet.com.pe> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:00:28PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > >> > >> Just a quick note saying that I have replaced TemplatePower with Dwoo > >> as our PHP templating engine in the trunk web code: > > > > why would we want to do that and throw away useful and time > > tested code? why would we do this in trunk destabilizing the > > development branch instead of in an independent branch which > > could be tested and validated before it gets merged into trunk > > if proven to at least be as usefull as the old code?, what is > > the scope of the work that is required on the templates and > > the rest of the PHP code to make this transition? > > > >> Please test and report any issues (especially security related). I'd > >> like to get this backported to 3.1.x and 3.0.x branches soon. > > > > -1 in both accounts, they are both maintenance branches and shouldn't > > have any major rearchitecture done in them. > > > >> Dwoo is modified/new BSD-licensed, which is the same as Ganglia. > > > > and this doesn't make a difference at all AFAIK with the fact that > > templatepower is GPL and some of the PHP code LGPL (for a discusion > > on that read old threads on this issue) specially considering that > > the frontend code is not "linked" with anything else. > > > > Bernard is talking about the Ganglia license as a whole which includes the >front end code. The fact that templatepower is GPL has a direct affect on >the >front end code and therefore affects Ganglia as a project. It is true that >the >front end code does not link with any of the backend (ie. gmond, gmetad), but >it does link with all of the PHP code. Therefore removing templatepower not >only from trunk but from the 3.1 and 3.0 branches as well, relieves our end >users from having to worry about licensing and any modifications that they >make >to their customized PHP code. Basically this move just brings Ganglia more >inline with regards to licensing. I don't see any harm in replacing >templatepower in trunk and then after a sufficient amount of testing, >backporting this change to the 3.1 and 3.0 branches. That is exactly the >purpose of trunk and complies with the guidelines that we have established on >the wiki. > > BTW, the 3.1.x branch is not a maintenance branch. It is currently our >release branch. Any new releases of Ganglia will be produced from the 3.1.x >branch. In addition, trunk is our development branch which should allow for >new contributions at any time. Therefore being able to move forward with a >change like incorporating Dwoo rather than TemplatePower in trunk, for >whatever >reason, is the appropriate thing to do. > > Brad > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-developers mailing list > Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers > & > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
