Re: [development] Mischievous registration of projects
My understanding is that this is already considered unacceptable but I don't know if any concrete action is being taken against it. It might be one of those things where the people who are able to do something about it are simply too busy to play police. It should be common sense that you don't create a project unless you're going to do something with it. Michelle On 11/30/2007 8:54:27 AM, Roman Chyla (roman.chyla@gmail.com) wrote:
Please don't make the registration process difficult or slower. It is better to focus on post-checking - if the module has not proven any activity, some action might be taken, but not sooner than that. roman
On Nov 30, 2007 1:57 PM, Thomas Barregren <thomas@webbredaktoren.se> wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe I talk through my hat, but I suggest a policy against mischievous registration of projects for the purpose of claiming namespace, e.g. opensocial, or for other reasons than providing a module, e.g. cvsdemo?
Thomas
I have seen the infra list (or maybe it was webmasters list, one of those two) say "yeah, just register the project and then check in code when you have it" to avoid writing a module to a namespace that gets taken before you finish your code. I suspect a lot of the "land rush" registrations are a result of that issue, but they just don't get finished (or started). IMO, we need to encourage people to use sandboxes more for "maybe I'll finish this" modules, not the "real" module namespace in CVS. --Larry Garfield On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:59:25 -0600, "Michelle Cox" <mcox@charter.net> wrote:
My understanding is that this is already considered unacceptable but I don't know if any concrete action is being taken against it. It might be one of those things where the people who are able to do something about it are simply too busy to play police. It should be common sense that you don't create a project unless you're going to do something with it.
Michelle
On 11/30/2007 8:54:27 AM, Roman Chyla (roman.chyla@gmail.com) wrote:
Please don't make the registration process difficult or slower. It is better to focus on post-checking - if the module has not proven any activity, some action might be taken, but not sooner than that. roman
On Nov 30, 2007 1:57 PM, Thomas Barregren <thomas@webbredaktoren.se> wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe I talk through my hat, but I suggest a policy against mischievous registration of projects for the purpose of claiming namespace, e.g. opensocial, or for other reasons than providing a module, e.g. cvsdemo?
Thomas
Larry Garfield wrote:
IMO, we need to encourage people to use sandboxes more for "maybe I'll finish this" modules, not the "real" module namespace in CVS.
Yeah, but then we'll get into the old argument about sandboxes not being for module development. To which I say boo hoo, as I said the last two iterations of that argument on this list. I agree, though. Sandboxes are a great place for alpha modules to live until they have the right to claim the namespace they aspire to occupy. In my opinion. Contrary to what the handbook says sandboxes are good for. -Robert
Ugh!!! I don't like to think about changing a modules name once I start. I think it is perfectly fair to grab your namespace, as long as you have some code or something alpha. Heck if it's alpha do it on your own box, and commit when it is sort of together. My normal process is to start work in CVS, reserving my namespace in CVS first, and create a project when I'm ready to release. Larry Garfield wrote:
I have seen the infra list (or maybe it was webmasters list, one of those two) say "yeah, just register the project and then check in code when you have it" to avoid writing a module to a namespace that gets taken before you finish your code. I suspect a lot of the "land rush" registrations are a result of that issue, but they just don't get finished (or started).
IMO, we need to encourage people to use sandboxes more for "maybe I'll finish this" modules, not the "real" module namespace in CVS.
--Larry Garfield
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