2014-11-21 17:45 GMT+09:00 Carlos R. Mafra <crma...@gmail.com>: > 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.
Hi folks, I am Japanese translator. I agree to Carlos. I think GNU policy is too strong for us.
