Need advice pertaining to GSoC proposal

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Apr 6 21:19:44 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 14:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 03:28 +0530, Debayan Banerjee wrote:
> > 2009/4/4 James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>:
> > > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 17:17 +0530, Debayan Banerjee wrote:
> > >> Let ISVs, 3rd party developers package stuff and host their own
> > >> repositories.
> > >
> > >  IMNSHO this isn't viable, which might be central to why you don't
> > > understand what you want to do isn't such a good idea.
> > >  I've tried to write up an overview of the problem, why it can't work,
> > > and a possible solution for the 3rd parties:
> > >
> > > http://illiterat.livejournal.com/6716.html
> > 
> > Thank you very much for your effort. I learnt a lot.
> 
> FWIW I wrote something similar, but much more wordy and blathery, in the
> context of Ubuntu's PPAs, back when I was at MDV:

The preceding mail nicely illustrates the dangers of the ctrl-enter
keybinding when trying to insert a couple of line feeds and immediately
afterwards paste the URL...

http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/10/24/mistakes/
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Adam Williamson
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