From: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
To: Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: proposal: add "packagers" field (list of strings (names)) to package definition
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:43:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zixtezjy.fsf@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565D565C.4030208@gmx.net> (Florian Paul Schmidt's message of "Tue, 1 Dec 2015 09:12:12 +0100")
On Tue 01 Dec 2015 08:12, Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net> writes:
> ...and encourage its use. The intended semantics is to list people
> that have contributed to the packaging effort. The motivation behind
> this proposal is that in many free software projects attribution can
> be a major source of motivation to get people involved. Having the
> packagers be first class citizens in the package definitions (as
> opposed to the information being only implicitly available through
> e.g. "git blame") would allow things like "guix package" or the
> package list on the website to display the contributor's names.
Since you ask for opinions, -1 from me :)
Currently Guix packages are more-or-less collectively owned.
Introducing this field implies to me an introduction of ownership of
packages. Ownership has a number of negative effects: it can inhibit
casual fixes and it can introduce unnecessary conflicts.
The kind of ego-based positive feedback that having a maintainer field
would introduce is negative IMO. It is good if people feel attached to
Guix-the-project and GuixSD-the-software-distribution, and to a degree
they get that by copyright, git blame, and NEWS. Feeling attached to a
particular package is not as useful for the project or the distribution.
IMO :)
Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-02 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-01 8:12 proposal: add "packagers" field (list of strings (names)) to package definition Florian Paul Schmidt
2015-12-01 12:59 ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2015-12-01 17:35 ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-01 18:46 ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-02 22:16 ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2015-12-02 13:43 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2015-12-02 14:09 ` Thompson, David
2015-12-02 14:59 ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2015-12-02 16:12 ` Andy Wingo
2015-12-02 18:43 ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2015-12-02 19:54 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-12-03 10:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-03 21:18 ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2015-12-02 16:50 ` Andreas Enge
2015-12-02 18:43 ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2015-12-03 16:46 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-03 21:15 ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2015-12-03 10:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-03 10:57 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
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