Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Further clarifications about maintainance

[B L. <che...@gm...>]

Hey all. I still have a clone of the TuxRacing repo but it's not up to
date. I'm not sure how it compares to what's on melange. The final commit
is from mid-July 2012.

Author: klocatelli <me...@kl...>
Date:   Thu Jul 19 20:54:31 2012 -0700
    Feedback release version

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:30 PM, deepak aggarwal <dee...@gm...
> wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I have cloned/moved most of the repos that contains new projects.
> Repos which are still missing
> 1. Tuxracing
> 2. Tux4eng
> 3. Tux4words: I have already dropped an email to Natalia so that she
> can transfer ownership to us.
>
> I have also roped in Nalin (2013 GSOC student) as a backup maintainer for
> us.
>
> @Pere : It would be great if you can email me code directly so that I can
> create a new repo for them.
>
> ᐧ
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
>
>>
>> Adding tuxpaint-devel list to the Cc's.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 09:37:14AM +0200, Bastien Guerry wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Holger Levsen <ho...@la...> writes:
>> >
>> > > why: because it focusses on tuxmath only, but we should solve this for
>> > > the bigger tux4kids project.
>> >
>> > Indeed, this was implicit in my previous email but I wasn't clear
>> > enough and I was not aware of other issues I just discovered.
>> >
>> > > I very very much applaud and thank Bastien for this initiative but I
>> > > *cannot* agree on it. Please include tuxtype and tuxpaint in it, and
>> > > quite very probably *more* tux4kids projects.
>> >
>> > My understanding was that Deepak maintains all tux4kids projects but I
>> > see now this is wrong.
>> >
>> > Deepak maintains Tuxmath only.
>> >
>> > @Deepak, is it so?
>> >
>> > > And, (long term) we need to come up with some rules / practices to
>> > > define what tux4kids is.
>> >
>> > After exploring a bit more, here is how I see it:
>> >
>> > - "Tux4kids" is just an ombrella for educational free softwares that
>> >   use the tux- prefix.
>> >
>> > - Among those softwares, there are two categories: those who are well
>> >   established and usable: Tuxmath, Tuxpaint, Tuxtype; others are more
>> >   or less stable, maintained, etc.: tuxhistory (?), Tux4ME, Tuxblocks.
>> >
>> > I suggest http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org should simply have four
>> > "buttons" (or beautiful pictures of games):
>> >
>> > 1. one to redirect to tuxpaint.org;
>> > 2. one to redirect to the tuxmath project webpage;
>> > 3. one to redirect to the tuxtype project webpage;
>> > 4. one to list other games (the Tux4Kids "lab"?).
>> >
>> > At the bottom, a link to the tux4kids-discuss mailing list.
>> >
>> > From here:
>> >
>> > - Tuxpaint seems to be developed rather autonomously, so I won't
>> >   suggest anything, the button would just lead to tuxpaint.org
>>
>> Correct, Tux Paint is currently maintained:
>>
>>   Website: http://tuxpaint.org/
>>
>>   Lists:
>>    * Dev discussions:
>>      * Code: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxpaint-devel
>>      * i18n: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxpaint-i18n
>>      * Art:  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxpaint-stamps
>>      * Docs: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxpaint-docs
>>    * User discussion:
>>      * http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tuxpaint-users
>>    * Announcements (non-discussion):
>>      * http://tuxpaint.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-news
>>
>>   Files & code repo:
>>    * SF project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/
>>    * Builds/etc: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxpaint/files/
>>    * CVS repo:   http://tuxpaint.cvs.sourceforge.net/tuxpaint/
>>
>>   Maintainers:
>>    * Me (Bill Kendrick, bi...@ne... / nb...@so...)
>>    * Others (Pere Pujal & others have been helping a lot)
>>
>> I've been a little out-of-the-loop lately, but discussions have
>> been going on aboiut switching from CVS to Git, and possibly
>> moving away from SF.net.  I should probably catch up and
>> participate in those :)
>>
>>
>> -bill!
>>
>>
>> >
>> > - http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxmath/index.php can be updated,
>> >   adding Deepak as the maintainer, listing tuxmath-devel@ as the main
>> >   communication point and the github tuxmath repository as the central
>> >   place for contributing with code and bug reports.
>> >
>> > - http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxtype/index.php can be cleaned
>> >   up a bit, advertizing the fact that the project is looking for a
>> >   maintainer--I assume it is.
>> >
>> > - A new page for other tux- softwares would just list them, maybe with
>> >   the name of a maintainer if there is one, deferring communication to
>> >   the github repositories.
>> >
>> > > And yes, probably we should have one mailing list (only). But this
>> list
>> > > then *must not* have "tuxmath" in it's name???!
>> >
>> > Would tux4kids-discuss@ be okay?
>> >
>> > > Again: Bastien, thanks a lot for driving this! Much appreciated. I'm
>> > > looking forward for a modified plan! ;-)
>> >
>> > Here is one:
>> >
>> > 1. Deepak agrees to be maintainer for Tuxmath *only*.
>> >
>> > 2. We all agree that there is no need for a Tux4Kids maintainer.
>> >
>> > 3. We all agree on using the tux4kids-discuss@ mailing list as the
>> >    central place for discussing among developers, contributors and
>> >    users from all Tuxy- projects.
>> >
>> > 4. Holger keeps the Tuxmath alioth repository in sync with the Tuxmath
>> >    Github's repository, and we all agree this Github repository is the
>> >    central place for Tuxmath development.
>> >
>> > 4. If Deepak maintains other repositories on Github that are also on
>> >    alioth (like tuxtype?), and if those repositories needs a sync on
>> >    alioth, Holger sets up a sync--otherwise those repositories lives
>> >    on Github and are advertized as such on the tux4kids website.
>> >
>> > 5. I update the various webpage to reflect this structure.
>> >
>> > If that's OK, from there we can move forward:
>> >
>> > - Laura sends her tuxmath patches as PR on Github.
>> > - We clean-up "abandonware" on the Github repositories.
>> > - ...
>> >
>> > Sorry for being so bulleted-list oriented, it helps me think!
>> >
>> > Thanks again for your feedback,
>> >
>> > --
>> >  Bastien
>> >
>> >
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