Re: Cfengine sources

[John Sechrest]

Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no writes:


 % There is such a list on the GNU Savannah site. No one uses it.

 Well that can be easy to change.

 All people with tasks and ideas and problems they have solutions
 to , just post them to this list.





 % On 14 Apr, Chip Seraphine wrote:
 % > 
 % > A good first step might  be to either create a "cfengine-devel" list (or, 
to 
 % > be really trendy, you could call it "cfengine-hackers" [*cough*]) for 
 % > discussion of features and ports and bugfixes and such (or would solutions 
to 
 % > bugs be discussed on the bugs list?).  This might help build the 
development 
 % > community you are looking for.... besides, if cfengine is going to the 
 % > traditional Open Source priveleged-group-that-has-commit-access route, a 
 % > mailing list will be needed for them (unless we want to overload -help or 
 % > -bugs) anyway.  
 % > 
 % > 
 % > On Monday 12 April 2004 06:36, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
 % >> 
 % >> Thank you, that is very kind. I would like to ave a technical
 % >> workshop at some point to discuss development. I have tried
 % >> to keep together a group whom I trust for a while but we have been
 % >> unlukcy with people changing jobs etc.
 % >> 
 % >> M
 % >> 
 % >> On 12 Apr, Kurt Lieber wrote:
 % >> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 01:19:51PM +0200 or thereabouts, 
 % > Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
 % >> >> Don't worry, I will never abandon cfengine without replacing it
 % >> >> with something better. However, my direct involvement in
 % >> >> changes can no longer go beyond core activities and I hope
 % >> >> that the final of these issues will be resolved i the next
 % >> >> major release.
 % >> > 
 % >> > OK, that's good to hear. :)
 % >> > 
 % >> >> I need to have tight control over development until the these
 % >> >> are fully implemented. After that, it will be easier for
 % >> >> others to contribute more freely (of course this does not mean
 % >> >> that they will...).
 % >> > 
 % >> > Gentoo Linux relies on cfengine heavily for its infrastructure.  
If/when 
 % > it
 % >> > comes to the point where you'd like to seek outside help, we'd be happy 
to
 % >> > help with recruiting and publicity.  In fact, if there's anything we 
can 
 % > do
 % >> > to help, let me know and I'm happy to do what we can.
 % >> > 
 % >> > --kurt
 % >> 
 % >> 
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