On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 at 21:04:20 -0200, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > Em Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:31:33 +0000 > "Carlos R. Mafra" <crma...@gmail.com> escreveu: > > > Are there any immediate changes necessary in order to accept this? > > By now you need to nominate the maintainer, and possibly > co-maintainer(s), responsible for the upcoming GNU Window Maker > package. Formally, they are the ones who become the GNU hackers > entitled to maintain and develop the package on GNU project's behalf: > their word will be trusted and their commitment relied upon. It's a > position of honor, power and responsibility within the GNU project. > > We need their names and respective emails. > > Provided that we will begin the process of integration within the GNU > project, and very soon myself, or other GNU folk in charge, will > contact the nominee(s) with further instructions.
Ok, I see the "integration within the GNU project". I thought that it would be simpler, that we could keep our development infrastructure and could keep on doing things the way we have been doing for the last 6 years. That you guys would simply download the tarballs and put it in your system. After all Window Maker is under the GPL etc. Accepting this proposal deviates too much from what's been established in the past years and imposes a time cost on the maintainer (me). I'd have to integrate with the GNU infrastructure and its way of doing things while things are already working right now without any extra effort from my side. > Meanwhile, they should become familiar with the development facilities > offered by the GNU project[1] and the GNU maintainers guidelines[2]. > It may also be helpful to read a little bit about the GNU project's > principles and philosophy[3]. > > Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. > > > Footnotes: > [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html > [2] http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/index.html > [3] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html I'm sorry to say this, but while reading the guides I had the impression of a preparation to be invaded by an alien virus. We would need to change the name to GNU Window Maker, we would all need to talk about GNU/linux, we could not say "open source" anymore and we would need to move the code to some other development place and move our mailing list etc etc etc. I don't have the time for this. I'm used to the current setup (which helped to resurrect a dead Window Maker development) and I am happy with it. Moving to the GNU system right now could help Window Maker gain some visibility but from my point of view you could also simply use Window Maker without requiring all this. I am the current maintainer, in the current 6-year-old setup. I don't want to change under the GNU umbrella and be bounded by its philosophy and way of doing things. I don't have time to learn all the needed stuff and change my ways of doing things. I'd say that if you want to use Window Maker, then use it. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
