[haiku-development] Re: HaikuPorts logo
- From: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:38:56 +0200
Hi,
Am 08.06.2008 um 03:49 schrieb Jorge G. Mare:
What would be the practical consequences of HaikuPorts becoming an
official part of the Haiku project?
In very broad terms, it would mean aligning to the core goals of the
project. In a nutshell, that means a commitment to focus
specifically on the advancement the Haiku.
That's what I feared as answer.
-1 from me.
BePorts/HaikuPorts has been a community effort from the start, with
contributors (volunteers) working on ports they are interested in. To
make it a really successful project, I believe this is the road to
follow. Scott and Luc for instance have been working on paving the way
for more games to be ported to Haiku, while I have more focused on
development-related tools, as a whole already covering a large number
of diverse ports. We have been looking into Haiku's needs and
contributing back to Haiku where we could.
For just porting the couple of ports strictly necessary for building
and running (advancing) Haiku, HaikuPorts seems 'overkill' - Ingo had
been doing that in Haiku's SVN before. And having Haiku Inc. decide
what ports we are allowed to or supposed to touch does not sound
intriguing at all. If there's something Haiku needs, Ingo would
probably know, or we'd probably learn it here, and otherwise our
mailing list has been open to everyone for ports to be proposed,
contributed or discussed.
I strongly believe that in the status quo Haiku and HaikuPorts
projects can get along quite well, without being official part of the
Haiku project. HaikuPorts is already de facto being recognized as a
useful resource for the Haiku project and community, as shown among
others by Ingo's and Koki's contributions.
And with some projects already willingly accepting upstream patches
for Haiku support, the amount of porting activity for software Haiku
itself needs is likely to decrease anyway, once those projects release
new versions featuring Haiku support out-of-the-box.
Andreas
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