Re: [Notion-devel] Is any of the notion@sf.net admins around?

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:30:33AM +0200, M Rawash wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 19:58 +0200, Juri Hamburg wrote:
> > there is a group of people who would like to finally start contributing 
> > code to notion. We have tried to contact the admins of no...@sf... over 
> > sourceforge web-interface with no luck.
> 
> Hi, sorry for being inactive the past few months (college finals, then
> summer and whatnot), 

No problem, glad to hear from you :)

> I replied to your pm regarding code contribution/git access minutes ago
> and while you come back to me, i wish you could brief us (i.e. those who
> have not been following the discussion on IRC) on what you came up with
> regarding the license

Reading the lists and IRC, it would appear most people would be fairly happy 
forking the latest ion3, keeping the LGPL-with-supplemental-naming-clause 
license. While not strictly 'as free' as the LGPL, it would be 'as free' as 
ion3, and perhaps even DFSG-free (the DFSG explicitly mentions 'The license 
may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the
original software', though it discourages such restrictions.). This seems the 
simplest way forward.

> contribution, coding, etc... 

For starters, I think having a public git (or other version control) repo is 
important 'psychologically': it is part of making notion an 'active project' 
instead of a dead-end download.

As mentioned in private email, I'd like to contribute a first version of a 
website ( http://arnout.engelen.eu/files/dev/notion/site/ ). I'd also like to
contribute (if no-one beats me to it) patches for including mod_xinerama and
some default settings (configuration for keyboard 'multimedia keys' comes to 
mind). Other topics for the future might be supporting more of the NETWM spec
and thinking of a way to make switching between dual-head and single-head 
easier (useful for laptops), but I'm not sure what that should look like yet.

As for going forward, I'd say there will need to be someone who can set up an 
initial git repo, at least 1 person reviewing and (eventually) applying 
patches, and someone would have to upload and maintain a project website. This
could all be done by the current admins, or you could consider adding some more
people to the project - the important thing is that it happens.

> and where we need to pick up the discussion from this moment forward.

Ideally, IMHO, the following discussion should be along the lines of: "I think
notion would be improved by doing X, and I'm willing to help, let's do it!" :).


Kind regards,

Arnout