On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:26:49AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:31:49PM +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 03:45:58PM +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@member.fsf.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > This a request to relaunch Packaging Team by giving it a bit another > > > > > meaning that it has before. > > > > > > > > > > The main idea I see for this new/old team is: > > > > > > > > > > Let people start sugar in any environment they have in most > > > > > convenient way. > > > > > > > > > > The team will cover not only questions how sugar is packaged for > > > > > major GNU/Linux distribution but also: > > > > > > > > > > * having Bazaar as a central place of all (out of distro) efforts > > > > > * building packages that are not(yet/well) packaged > > > > > * support distros that don't have packaged sugar > > > > > * run daily snapshot of sugar in as many as possible environments > > > > > * take care of Sugar Platform dependencies (how many, are they > > > > > packaged > > > > > and make custom build otherwise) > > > > > * support meta sugar distribution ie just a bunch of repositories of > > > > > sugar packages that can be attached to existed system to run sugar > > > > > > > > > > BTW, maybe "Packaging" is not appropriate name, any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Account Services team is the preferred trade name for small size teams > > > > engaged in support work (answering questions, or communicating with the > > > > development team, maintaining builds and their timely releases). Some > > > > companies use "Internal System Architect" nomenclature too. When team > > > sizes > > > > grew bigger, this work comes under the umbrella of Members of Technical > > > > Staff. > > > > > > Well, I personally prefer something less official/corporate, e.g., Bazaar > > > Team :) > > > > > > > > > Bazaar in Hindi refers to market. Suspect that many people would confuse it > > with the marketing team :-) > > Though "Bazaar" is referring more to "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" in > FOSS world (afaik) rather to marketing (which sounds, in some meaning, quite > opposite thing :). > > What about "Sweet Team" then, i.e., "sweet" is an id of packages on > bazaar.sl.o and "sweets" is the main command-line tool.
Of course it might be something neutral like "Distribution Team". -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
