Subject: On broken wheels and user contributed code
From: Andrej Vodopivec
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 21:24:21 +0200
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Harald Geyer <harald at lefant.net> wrote:
>> I agree that there should be some infrastructure for users to upload
>> code which they would like to share with others. However using
>> sourceforge file release system is in my opinion too complicated.
>
> Well, I never used it so I can't tell...
>
> However the point of releasing some kind of tarball of user contributed
> code would be to have something the linux distributions can make packages
> of easily and that might get included into the windows installer like
> it is now done for wxmaxima.
The forum would be used so that people can upload their packages
without becoming developers. Someone can later collect the packages
from the forum and release them on sourceforge.
Andrej