[Pkg-electronics-devel] Hello from a new member and RFS: arduino

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:02:38PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> On Saturday 08 May 2010 12:08:36 Scott Howard wrote:
> > On a seperate note, what is the team's policy on non-free archives?
> > I'm currently maintaining eagle (non-free). I wouldn't mind putting
> > eagle under the team's maintenance and helping with that and other
> > packages. Once the arduino package is working smoothly I can do the
> > same with arduino. I understand that the team maintains PCB, which is
> > free, and might not want to split resources with a similar non-free
> > package.
> 
> I don't think we have any specific policy. Anyone else want to chime in?
> 
> Mostly the way we've been working is just that people work mostly on the 
> packages that are interesting to them, and others only if there is a pressing 
> issue. So I don't think having a contrib or non-free package under team 
> maintenance is a resource problem -- people who are uninterested just won't 
> work on it, those who are, will.

Personally I don't mind if non-free packages are listed with the team's
name, but I won't necessarily help with them.


Hamish