[os-infrastructure] Re: Model discussion boiled dry(er)

[Chris Clark]

On 6/26/2008 10:45 AM, Daryl Monge wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Joseph C. Kronk wrote:
>> The open source projects as they stand right now are too different to 
>> have a single comprehensive policy but could converge as we gain 
>> experience in putting forth some initial policies and then begin to 
>> accept contributions to the respective projects.
>
> I have been reading quite a bit of traffic on this, but to be honest I 
> am still having some difficulty understanding the differences and the 
> requirements driving them.  Any succinct help (re-hash?) would be 
> appreciated.

http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Community_Model will be the starting 
place for this information. I know the OpenROAD folks hope to have some 
content up soon/next week.

Again http://community.ingres.com/wiki/Community_Model is not (yet) an 
appropriate place for discussion, it is for fleshed out proposals.


 From another email:
> I think we should keep our eye on other Open Source sites and try to 
> maintain a best practices.  Most sites have the "How to Contribute 
> somewhere" but I failed to dig deep enough on hours. My brain was used 
> to looking at sourceforce......... :-)

Excellent point, our site is different from most other sites.

Admittedly other sites are not consistent with each other either but 
they are usually not that different. My rule of check list for finding 
code in scs;

   1. check for obvious scs links (svn, cvs, bzr, etc)
   2. check the download button, sometimes this lists both tarballs and
      the scs link(s)
   3. then check for a dev link


I do not have a good solution to this, other than a static (or cms) 
website, http://community.ingres.com/ would be the ideal starting url 
for this.

It seems to me that whilst the current content on 
http://community.ingres.com/  (actually 
http://community.ingres.com/forums/home.php ) is interesting, it is 
rather marketing in focus and doesn't really deal with Ingres. The 
Ingres (Ingres OpenROAD, Download Ingres 2006 r3 Builds, Get Involved 
with Ingres) stuff is tucked away at the bottom.

Does anyone have a wish list what should be on the "front door"?

Chris