On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:39:04PM +1200, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:07 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > The important thing to remember is that *a* package is better than *no
> > package*. Sometimes users won't have a good build recipe. Those
> > packages shouldn't be excluded from availability simply because there
> > is not an easily-reproduceable build recipe.
> 
> I think that's a perfectly good reason to be excluded from /contrib.
> It's also a requirement of the most commonly used licenses.
> I'm not talking about pkgbuild recipes, but some sort of documented
> way of building the binaries and access to the sources has to be
> a requirement for /contrib to have any value.
> I would also make peer review of any code changes a requirement.

That already exists.  It's called the SFW consolidation :)
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