Hello, we are interested in working closely with the Ubuntu project, otherwise I would not be here providing a detailed description of the project and clarifying how it does not duplicate the existing official projects. (I already knew this position from a few members on #ubuntu-motu). Official repositories are an important part of the project, I will have all the pleasure in engaging into collaboration activities, preferably automated, as long we pass the "Why do you exist?" phase. That is the dialog that has been running with Scott, nothing else. Once we skip that phase of the dialog, we will get into the, "How can we collaborate?", which I was trying to get into on my previous mail, regarding the ability to upload packages to a backports automated building process. Thanks <div>2007/10/16, Forest Bond <<a href="mailto:forest@alittletooquiet.net">forest@alittletooquiet.net</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:51:52PM +0100, João Pinto wrote: > We provide packages which are new/not in the official repositories, because, we > want them to become available for the users. If your question, is, why don't we > follow the MOTU processes to make them available, then we go into another > subject which is not about getdeb. Neither would I be able to represent all the > individuals which create/submit/request packages to getdeb, some of them do > also parallel work, they are submitting both to getdeb and to the official > processes, on getdeb it is likely that they will become available in 1 week, > the same package, following official processes, may take several weeks, or > months, please note that our QA requirements are not as strict(good) as the > Debian/Ubuntu packages. If you are not interested in working more closely with the Ubuntu project, what was the purpose of your message to ubuntu-devel-discuss and the ongoing dialogue ? -Forest -- Forest Bond <a href="http://www.alittletooquiet.net">http://www.alittletooquiet.net</a> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHFRh1RO4fQQdv5AwRAv1lAJ0chY4vg9SdIUmpTTJ/EEMLffHklACgpLu5 GG4rF1gx6rA8HCiDePs2qyE= =G6TL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div> -- João Pinto IRC: Lamego @ <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a> Jabber ID: <a href="mailto:lamego.pinto@gmail.com">lamego.pinto@gmail.com</a> GetDeb Project Manager - <a href="http://www.getdeb.net">http://www.getdeb.net</a>