Re: Reminder: Comments for changing GPE hosting

> Though until now noone else spoke up.
>
I would be interested in to know a little bit more from this
linuxtogo.org and it's organization.
It seems that the technical issues are not behind the move, it's more
like some people are not happy with the
handhelds.org organization and want to instead move the projects to
their organization?

As things seems to be non-techinal, I would like to hear from the
possible non-technical issues which are more green in this new ip address
and would prevent the need for a similar kind of fork to happen easily
again. So here are my questions :-)

1) What are the rules and plans in this linuxtogo.org? Is it independent
non-profit organization or commercial?

2) I assume that there is some kind of management selected who takes
care from the daily issues like hosting.

    a) How is the management team selected? Is it possible to vote for
it, or is that fixed.

    b) If it is possible to vote the people to this management team, if
so, who can vote?

    c) Is there some other decision makers with vote right on over this
management team?

    d) If it is possible to vote, are some of the seats in management
team fixed?

    e) If the linuxtogo is successfull, I would expect it to get some
money via advertising, sponsorships and maybe also from companies
         using the apps hosted there. Who makes then the decision how
those moneys are used and for what kind of situations that can be used.
         For hiring somebody for example?

3) Who makes the decision from the people having write access to
repositories? Are there some kind of "code of conduct" rules to follow.
   
    a) If there is a decision to write some part of the apps to
libraries under LGPL and somebody writes new library under GPL v2 or V3 and
        refuses to license that to LGPL. Could that be a reason for
preventing the write access?

    b) If I would continue to write code to original "Gomunicator"
repository in Xanadux just like I have done from the last summer, would
         that be a reason which could prevent me to participate to other
project with write access in linux-to-go?

    c) How is it ensured that there does not happen a "sitting in 2
hats" situation, where some parts of the project are slowed down, or
write to them
        is hard because there are some commercial interest for similar
work or sad licensing problems.
       (I have heard some sad legends why it is very tought to get arm
v6 support to qemu...)

I hope I was not too hostile with my questions. I think there is a need
for linux-to-go, because it is made, but I also feel a little bit
suspicious when existing projects are started to gathered to new
location with high volume. That's because I kind of feel that the
diversity of projects
is very important think in the Linux world that ensures that too much
things are not lying in the single basket preventing the progress and
innovations.
 (handhelds.org, htc/xanadux, openembedded, kernel.org, gnu, o-hand-com,
kde, gtk, ...)

Mika
Received on Wed Oct 11 2006 - 18:48:24 EDT