[openbeos] Re: Haiku distro guidelines [was: Haiku Vmware Build Environment]
- From: "Karl vom Dorff" <karl@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:36:08 -0400
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > I actually think this is a very good argument, and regret my earlier
> > statement a little where I said the plan is to make this easy... :-)
>
> I fully agree with Koki about avoiding the "Linuxification" of Haiku.
>
> Still, if we are going to have distro guidelines, but make them
> difficult to follow, will that discorage people from making distros,
> or just cause them to ignore the guidelines??? I am not sure, I guess
> time will tell.
>
> Also if we don't really want distros made and distributed at this
> stage of the project, we should probably say that. Of course I'm not
> really sure if Karl's image qualifies as a distro, but that is my
> PERSONAL OPINION and does not express the opinion of Haiku, Inc., the
> Haiku project or its affiliated developers. Since it actually would
> make it easier for new developers to jump in and develop on Haiku, I
> think it should be supported more. But only as long as it is clearly
> expressed that is in an alpha, could crash, is really only for
> developers, etc. Which I suppose is where those distro guidelines come
> in.
That's exactly what pops up when one starts the image. A disclaimer about
the system... I've also removed the author 'Haiku Inc.' from the file, and
removed Haiku out of the name of the file.
Ok, I'm not a developer and can't pour through the code internally to find
out how to adjust the information in AboutSystem! At the same time, I think
what I made has value and is useful to someone who wants to jump into things
quickly. All I'd like, is to adhere to the guidelines as requested by Koki.
There's some devs here for helping me help Haiku, some against. So, if any
of the 'for' devs could email me with some advice on how to adjust
AboutSystem, that'd be nice.
I don't understand why Haiku can endorse 3rd party builds elsewhere
(haiku-files) and not help someone who is trying to also make life easier.
Userbuildscript was adjusted to make the images 250mb there, so
theoretically it's a distro as well.
>
>
> Ryan
>
>
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Karl vom Dorff
B.Sc (Hons) Biology, (German minor)
http://www.karlvd.com
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