On 2012-08-19 at 02:10:47 [+0200], Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [ ... ] > > Ingo & Oliver, > > Both of your contract proposals have been accepted. Congratulations! Thanks for agreeing to the proposal :-) > However, there are two discussion points. > > Attached to this mail is a set of contractor obligations that each > of you must agree to. Most are conventions within the Haiku project. > The rest is other requirements that each of you should already be > familiar with, having done previous contracts. E.g., providing > quotable summaries to Haiku, Inc. for marketing purposes and posting > information to the project's website, so as to give casual users a > sense of the ongoing work. Let us know if they're agreeable. Just fine. > A concern was raised that at the end of these contracts, package > management may be in a state where it is nearly finished but not > readily available to other contributors/package maintainers. We are > asking that if it is possible to put package management into a state > where others can help out, that would seem to be a good focal point. While it certainly is a possibility that package managemen won't be finished by the end of the contracts, I strongly believe that we should be able to get it into a state that's more straightforward to contribute to: At the very least, the infrastructure and policies for building packages should be in place. Hopefully, as Ingo has written already, the PM-branch will be merged back into the main repository during our work. cheers, Oliver