Re: [Opensync-devel] opensync and Debian

[Juha T. <Juh...@ik...>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Chris Frey wrote:
> Well, on the other hand, 0.22 has already shipped, and is in use already.
> Until something better comes along, it's the defacto standard in the
> opensync world.

In the reality where i live and lot of othres, it never succeeded 
from slow sync. That means tons of duplicated entries and mess that 
renders it useless. If my reality would be very different from rest 
of the world, we would have userspace of millions of people. We 
don't.

>> Apparently there is a strong will focus to that irrelvant, and it's
>> doing well atm.
>
> Not sure I understand what you mean by this.

In order to develop opensource software, you need a community 
ecosystem that supports that development work. Developers, testers, 
occasional bug fixers and end users each need each other.

If you do actions that either prevent that ecosystem to exist in the 
first place or split it half - where other half has testers and 
users and other only developers, neither one is a healthy ecosystem 
nor work as expected and required.

We need to get all hands into developmenet branch. Having something 
easy available in 0.2x branch drags focus there and the HEAD suffers 
from lack of activity.

That's what i explained a year or more ago, suggested that we kill 
the whole 0.2x officially and recommend distros to drop it. It 
didn't happen nor did the 0.40 release. I see connection between 
these two, others don't.

Someone may say that I'm wrong, but if the project has failed its 
own goals and mailstones, something is wrong and things are not 
working as planned. If I'm wrong, you probably have better 
explanation for that failure. I'd like to hear it.

Br,

Tuju

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