On Sunday 25 March 2007 19:09, Geoffroy VALLEE wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2007 05:04, Erich Focht wrote: > > This is unacceptable for me personally and is a BAD THING to do in an > > open source project > > [...] > > > By the way, opkgc is another candidate for this kind of issues. To make it > > clear: the opkg compiler (opkgc) is an idea developed by Brian Finley and > > myself at the OSCAR conference in St. John's (2006). The design was > > presented by myself at the ORNL OSCAR meeting in January 2007. Luckilly > > Geoffroy had xslt/python code he could reuse from his virtualization work > > which does similar morphings of files as we need, so we have now an > > implementation of the opkc idea based on that code. > > Continuing about "it is not acceptable to use _my idea_", i am kind of > surprise to see that I am not anymore in the group of people thinking > initially about the problem and actively involved in the discussion. > Since the date i started to work on OoD i keep this kind of idea in mind, try > to speak about it (basic tools, not so well defined that opkgc for which > Erich proposed a simple and clear definition, are already available for > OoD)... but it seems that people only remember what they want to remember, as > usual.
Geoffroy, I remember you nodding to what I explained in St. John's and saying that this would help and fit very well into the Debian repository concept. Yes, you were an innitiator in the sense of you were pushing to find some way of getting into the repository and I wanted to bring RPMs and debs together this way. > Personally i think this is not important points, let's code and make OSCAR > better. BTW I am not even sure that Jean wanted to say "This is MY idea", i > am pretty sure that he wanted to say "The current approach i plan to > implement is...". And i think that before to start to be agressive a better > way is to contact the person and try to figure out what he wanted to say... I accept that this can be a translation issue, but there isn't much benefit in working in an open source project, there are neither patents filed nor income, but intellectual property still exists, even with GPL code. So this kind of statement must be made carefully and I hope everybody will react, no matter whether in open or not. English is a foreign language to me, too, BTW. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
