On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 00:10 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 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 :)

Yes, the SFW consolidation would certainly meet the criteria
for inclusion in /contrib.  It has lots of other requirements
as well, that /contrib shouldn't need.  What I'd like to see
is somewhere between 'some binary that someone somehow built'
and SFW.

Laca


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