Re: Follow up from LinuxTag
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Klaas Freitag <freitag(a)suse.de> wrote:
On Montag, 2. Juni 2008, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
Hi Yaakov,
>
> I would like to follow up with you all the details we discussed at
> LinuxTag last Saturday and a couple of other details to mention.
Thanks for driving that.
No Problem
> 1) Smolt will be an optional package in 11.0
> - We discussed writing something in the wiki on a Howto to get
> powerusers to test out the code. This will help iron out bugs. Where
> would I begin putting in such an article.
I started a page in the openSUSE wiki under
http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware/Smolt
You're very welcome to contribute.
Will do.
> 3) We (the smolt development team) are more than happy to accept
patches
> - Copyright attribution should be made to Michael McGrath, we stick
> to a GPLv2+ license, and will announce a head of time if we need to
> change our licensing.
> - Under the European 'droit d'auteur', I think we just need an
> unlimited rights license that can't be revoked so long as it does not
> infringe on the author's rights. If you are not familiar with the
> details behind these things, we'll have to check with our lawyers.
> - The best thing to do is to use git's tools to send us the patches.
> This let's us track the author attribution more easily. If your team
> is not familiar with git, I would be more than happy to assist them.
Hmm, not sure about the Copyright assignement at the moment. For small
patches that's obviously no prob, so let's take care about that when we
get there.
Fine. I just needed to give you a heads up warning.
> 4) openSuSE is more than welcome to use our server hosted at
> smolts.org to send data.
That's great. How is that organised? Is smolts.org Fedora? Are there
plans to make it independant from Fedora and drive it as it's own
community project? Might attract other linux projets that way...
Maybe together we could find sponsoring from big players like HP etc.
for that?
Smolt was developed by Mike before he became a Red Hat employee. We
host the development and operation on Red Hat/Fedora servers, with the
effort of the Fedora Infrastructure team. Officially, though, we
treat Smolt like it were an upstream project. For now, I think we're
content to continue having Fedora host our stuff, since it would be a
lot of work to distribute the load.
Mike got the 'smolts.org' domain specifically so we wouldn't have a
fedora related URL.
Another thing: Would you agree to make smolts.org look even less
like
Fedora as we're starting to use it together? You already did a lot but
why not have a own color for smolts for example? Would you be open
for that?
We rather like the colour blue, and there aren't many colors that are
distro-independent. Actually, I'm not as an artistic person as I
would like to be, and can't really come up with a new theme myself. I
have no problems changing the theme. Perhaps we should have our
artwork teams collaborate on something?
> - We should be making releases of the data available to the
public,
> stripped of private information. For your own purposes, I believe
> this will give you the best data during the summer.
Public releases of anonym data are fine. OTOH we would like to have
the possibility to access the data anytime - and make our data analysis
as well. Is that possible?
I'll defer to Mike on how often he plans on making the public
releases. I think once a week is reasonable. You can import the data
into mysql, and run any sql query you want on it. If you need the
actual data more frequently, you will have to speak to Mike.
mfG,
Yaakov