On 15 December 2010 03:35, David T. Lewis <lewis@mail.msen.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23:25PM +0100, Igor Stasenko wrote:
Hello, community
(preface) there was a discussion about using git for VM sources and recently in pharo team, we are also discussed that, and decided to go on. So i started to look for an options and found that Gitorious is best solution for us all. In contrast to github, it doesn't charging users when their repository grow beyond 300Mb in size. And its totally free for open-source projects.
Igor,
Thanks for your initiative, and I expect a lively discussion moving forward ;)
To the community at large,
We have a wonderful mix of people participating in Squeak/Etoys/Phoro/Cuis and other projects, some of whom have be participating for many years, as well as many newer contributors. Regardless of how the VM(s) are managed in the future, I would ask that everyone with an interest in this please be respectful of the people who created the original work for our benefit. In particular, Andreas, Ian, John, and Eliot have contributed major VM development that they have made available to us with open source licenses, and Dan Ingalls' original portable VM is a remarkable piece of work from which we all are benefiting every day.
So the meta-comment is: Let's all be respectful of the wishes of the original authors of these works.
I am always acting with best intents for all of us. If creating a separate code repository goes against somebody's wishes, please speak. I didn't want to cause any harm. My intent is to make VM development process more open and flexible.
For those doing VM platform work, I would ask also that you take the time to read the various README and documention files to be found in the platforms sources, as these often contain guidance as to how the code should be managed, how contributions can most effectively be made to the original authors, and of course how to build the VM for each respective platform.
Thanks everybody!
Dave
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.