Re: The parallel projects (was Re: Apache 2.4 and php 5.6 test branch)

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

thank you for your comment.

I pretty much agree despite that I am not the only maintainer of IPFire
2 and IPFire 3. We should move on to IPFire 3 as soon as possible so
that we can use the benefits of the build system and the social
development process we have built there.

Best,
-Michael

On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 13:04 +0100, Jonatan Schlag wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a user of IPFire, but i also develop ( in the moment for me
> alone), things which i need.
> It is no easy to follow this conversation, so if do not cover
> anything I just do this because the discussion is to big o comment it
> at once and I think this is not necessary.
> In the moment I see Michael Tremer, which is Maintainer of the
> “whole” project. And I see a lot of other people here and in the
> forum which contribute, and want to contribute. 
> That the people want to contribute is simple great. 
> The problem is from my point of view the way how they do that and how
> the whole project “work!” in the moment. Please do not misunderstand
> me, the last thing what I want is to say this is your or you fault. I
> know enough situation where people do that and make only noise, but
> do not solve any Problems.
> So I do not think that these parallel projects should be separated,
> this only split the energy, and this is not good. What I think is
> that I should be clear who is appropriate for this or for these.
> Michael is not appropriate for maintain every thing and write
> thousand of E – Mails. He is appropriate for the core.
> When people development a addon they should maintain it. I know that
> IPFire a firewall router is but some addons may be useful. Not for
> everyone but for some people they are useful. So they could be
> developed, but should not be maintained by the core developers. The
> core developers should maintain the core and nothing else. 
> So maybe is is a solution to drop every addon which has no maintainer
> (this is a very hard way).
> But for this we need a information in the lfs files like in IPFire 3
> # maintainer = Jonatan Schlag (jonatan(at)familyschlag.de)
> So it is more clear which person is appropriate for which thing.
> 
> So this are some thoughts form my side. I hope they are useful.
> 
> Yours Sincerely Jonatan Schlag

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