From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rm@fabula.de Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile and the Free Software Directory Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:58:42 +0100 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030304145842.GC27537@www> References: <20030303153745.GA22399@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046811881 15420 80.91.224.249 (4 Mar 2003 21:04:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:04:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rm@fabula.de Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 04 15:55:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qDoB-0000Bv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:54:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qDlK-0002hE-0B for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qDkn-0002XE-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:50:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qDkk-0002UA-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:50:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.22.192.104] (helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qDk5-0002H7-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:50:05 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 5001) id 0418D1407F; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:58:42 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Marius Vollmer Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Original-cc: guile-user@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:1710 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1710 On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:32:36PM +0100, Marius Vollmer wrote: > > We would make sure for each entry in our database, there is a > corresponding entry in the Free Software Directory. The entry would > be deleted from our database. Hopefully our databse is empty after > that and can be 'decommissioned'. > > > While think it migh be a nice idea for the projects to also show up > > on the FSD site (but the projects maintainer should decide) i think > > there really should be a well- maintained list of Guile-related > > software on the Guile website as well. > > I would like to avoid the double maintainance. We don't need to > duplicate something that is already there and useful. When the FSD > has shortcomings, we should try to improve the FSD itself instead of > rejecting it. Ok, double maintainance _is_ a problem (but that could be left to a script ;-) > > This is the place people will look at to see the current state of > > Guile. I'd hate to have to dig through the FSD to find out about > > some Guile bindings to a library > > We can link to the FSD in general and to a pre-frabricated query so > that only Guile relevant entries are listed. Sound reasonable ... > > (not only is the UI suboptimal, there's no way to apply a filter to > > only see 'Guile projects'). > > We might make a new category (with subcategories) and put the Guile > related packages in it. If this is a possibility i'd say to go for it. > > What, actually, _is_ the problem with the current setup? From Thi's > > comment i grok it's rather a political than a technical, or did i > > get something wrong? > > Technically, I think it is wrong to maintain a projects database when > there is already one that can do the job. There is nothing > politically wrong about our current database, it is only unfortunate > that the person willing to maintain it can not have write access to > the repository (since I decided back then that I didn't trust him > enough and I haven't reconsidered yet). I see the technical reasons. As for the current maintainer: i think this situation needs to be resolved. The current setup only seems to create problems and frustration -- a maintainer without write access has a hard time doing his job ... > > > (The task of actually moving the entries can probably not be fully > > > automated, so it would be great if we can find some people to help > > > with it.) > > > > I'm happy to help keeping the current site up to date ... > > Would you also be willing to help find an arrangement where we use the > FSD as our 'backend'? Shure. Ralf Mattes _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user