Re: [fink-core] How to address this -> RFC

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Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
| On Jan 24, 2005, at 7:20 AM, D. H=F6hn wrote:
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|> the one below. Not because I do not think that it is great the author =
is
|> willing to inciroperate patches, but it coul dlead to many projects
|> abusing our ressources for their porting.
|
|
| I disagree. The author likely doesn't have a Mac OS X system to use for
| porting, so there's a valid reason for him to be requesting a Fink
| package. And judging from the history of the request tracker, there's
| zero obligation to actually do anything about it.
|
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| If we were to reject them out of hand, what would you say is the proper
| way for a project without a Mac OS X system to request help porting?
|
To me it is a matter of focus. While we can help, while we can provide
tips, it should not be our tracker that is the place where you ask for
_porting_ of your application. As you said, when no one is interested we
gain nothing but a very long tracker list. The tracker is pretty aweful
already and that would clutter it all the more.

I do agree that we might be in the unique position to offer such a
"service". Maybe a seperate tracker where Authors of software packages
_can_ request that their software is being ported to Mac OS X, simply
because we have so many users that might be interested in it. I do feel
that this is a whole different issue though.

- -d

| Dave

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