[Xorp-users] SCons prerequisites for Linux targets
Bruce Simpson
bms at incunabulum.net
Sat Jul 18 08:33:38 PDT 2009
Ben Greear wrote:
> Sounds good. Hope you have better luck keeping spammers out of your
> wiki than we did :P
I think it's reasonable that people need to sign up, in order to
contribute to a Wiki. Captcha-like systems can only go so far. I'd
rather we didn't have to vet people who just wander in wanting to
contribute their own support information. I'm surprised that XORP does
not already have an independent Wiki.
We are still waiting for the legal go-ahead to deploy the community
code on SourceForge.
I can't apologise enough for this, this is pretty much out of my
hands at the moment. I have suggested Google Code as an alternative
venue, which is possibly more viable given the constraints we're under
here for a community release.
SourceForge is in a period of change itself at the moment. Whilst I
don't like the idea of putting all our eggs in the Google basket -- and
there are good arguments on both sides -- SourceForge have withdrawn
their Wiki service, Google Code have not.
>
> A simple README_BUILD.txt would probably suffice as well.
The thing is, whilst it's all well and good shipping BUILD_NOTES in
the release tarballs as we already do, we probably need to move to a
more fluid model. The information in those files gets outdated easily,
and XORP has been shipping them around year after year.
Shipping community releases is time consuming, and when the
engineering resource isn't there, it's difficult to pull off without
serious personal commitment on the part of the original instigators, and
that doesn't come without its own costs. It is always best to have the
host organisation directly involved.
One approach, which seems to work well in one local software company
I'm in the loop with, is to designate Friday afternoon as 'open source
time', and this is something will be recommending to XORP, Inc. The
community branch is, after all, pretty much an essential sales
opportunity, that can't be ignored.
thanks,
BMS
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