Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/10/07/22:14:04
Evan Foss wrote:
> I am trying to bump this to it's own thread.
Ok, I will bite and give my point of view on the launchpad drama.
Prehistory:
(Markus, please correct me if I present some aspects incorrectly.)
Markus got approached by Eugene Mikhantiev whether his build might
become the "official" PPA of the geda project. He is doing these
builds independently since about 2013:
https://launchpad.net/~mehanik/+archive/ubuntu/geda-unstable
To all of you who are as ignorant as me until very recently -- a PPA
is Ubuntu talk for a self contained repository for a specific software
package. It represents a way to get an application in parallel to the
core packages and the ones available via the connection to Debian.
You have to be an administrator or owner of a launchpad team to
associate a PPA. In case of the gEDA_Developers team the only
adminstrator and owner is the launchpad team "gEDA_Administrators".
So Markus applied to join this team too.
Apparently, Markus's application to join got declined. (I hope, I did
not get this wrong. Again, please correct me if so)
This left him salty. He felt like administrators blocked developers,
old boys blocked new kids on the block. In an emotional move he
stopped his efforts to review the backlog of bugs in the bugtrackers
on launchpad and left the launchpad team gEDA_developers.
In addition, he revitalized a long standing idea to have a single
place to deal with bugs in all of geda's projects. A team which is as
open as possible to everybody with good intentions. And of course a
place to present a PPA of the most current version of the geda tools.
He asked me about an opinion. I responded, I like the approach and
suggested a name for the effort. You guessed it, this is the team
"gEDAhead" and its associated project "geda-project" to handle bug
reports.
gEDAhead: https://launchpad.net/~geda
gEDA-project: https://launchpad.net/geda-project
Note, that these bugs are exactly the same as those seen in the bug
trackers for the individual tools. Bugs can be associated with more
than one project in launchpad.
Markus set up a weekly snapshot PPA in gEDAhead, too.
In summery, gEDAhead currently provides three benefits:
1) a single place to add and access bug reports of all geda tools
2) a low entrance barrier team to join and become involved
3) a weekly build of the geda tools to be used on ubuntu systems and
by extension on any debian related distro.
I feel like these are steps in the right direction. Let's use the
momentum to gedAhead ;-)
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