[openbeos] Re: Site Audit

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Karl vom Dorff <karl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Oliver Ruiz Dorantes
>> <oliver.ruiz.dorantes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >>
>> >> Not sure I understand what you mean... I want to try to get away from
>> >> people submitting their own mirrors and links to files. If everything
>> >> is all
>> >> in one place, even if it goes down, it would be a lot easier to
>> >> retrieve
>> >> than if files are scattered all over the web.
>> >
>> >
>> > Just people posting you a temporal URL where you can retrieve and mirror
>> > the
>> > lost app.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I didn't. I didn't download or add Zeta apps because Zeta is dead.
>> >> Also, I
>> >> didn't download sources.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thats a mistake. All bin only app is unmaintanable and will become
>> > unuseful
>> > as soon as Haiku switches to gcc4 or further evolutions. Maybe few(10%?)
>> > of
>> > the apps you saved had its sources, but these are the only ones that
>> > have a
>> > choice to stay in the future for Haiku.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> There are very few sources available. I thought long and hard about
>> >> this
>> >> one. I don't want Haikuware to become a repository for source code.
>> >
>> >
>> > Its not that it has to be in haikuware. The code could be included with
>> > the
>> > package, or an osdrawer project could be opened for each of them.
>> > "Where" is
>> > not the question now, just having them in a safe place before more
>> > websites
>> > are gone, and that valueable codebase lost forever.
>> > If it cannot be in Haikuware. We need to have somewhere with as much as
>> > beos
>> > app sources avaliable, not in terms of repository thats for OsDrawer.
>> > But in
>> > terms ensure all beos apps that were opensourced are safe and can be
>> > maintained and reinserted in Haiku for the future.
>> > So if someone moreover the bin of karl's list has the sources... SPAM me
>> > please. I might find some time for a website for this.
>> >
>>
>> I wholeheartedly agree with this thinking.
>> Any application that has source code is 100% valuable and should be
>> preserved.
>> Remember, Haiku is opensource.   Even if Haiku Inc., chooses not to
>> implement Zeta-specific API, someone else may.
>> Even if no one does that,  someone may re-write Zeta-only applications
>> to work on Haiku.  Maybe they use it purely as a reference.
>
> I think you guys have changed my mind :) Whatever files I come across from
> now on I will include the sources in the same zip file as the binary, and
> include 'sources included' in the description. I don't know about going
> through all 2200+ files though and checking if there are sources available.
> I'll do what I can!
Talking with plfiorini, who is now a maintainer OSDrawer.net, he suggests:

In the case of abandoned projects, where the developer/maintainer is
no longer active or unreachable, we can:

Send plfiorini or atomozero an email with all of the projects information,
 along with a compressed archive of the source code.
( currently, a submit project page is not available, due to the site's
software change )

plfiorini : "Pier Luigi Fiorini" <pierluigi.fiorini@xxxxxxxxx>
atomozero : "Andrea Bernardi" <bernardi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>

The information should include:
Identifier,
Title,
Description,
and License.    

For abandoned projects that provide source code and do not specify a
license, list it as  "None Listed".   It may be re-classified as MIT
or BSD.

For projects that have an active maintainer, please contact the
maintainer and request that they host their project at OSDrawer.net :
)

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