[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Richard L. Hamilton]

> Ceri Davies wrote:
> > My point being that this is going to go down like a
[controversial expression deleted]
> 
> Hello, Ceri. That's really an unfortunate comment
> given the hard work 
> many people have been putting into making this
> initial release 
> successful. It's obviously a work in progress, and
> great strides have 
> been made in a relatively short amount of time. Also,
> your comment is 
> not acceptable for advocacy-discuss.

I do think it would be nice if a big high-visibility release was
accompanied by a _matching_ tarball of all the source (and
closed binaries, as applicable) and tools needed to rebuild it.
IMO, _that_, in if not _one_ wget, at least a _very_short_list_
of commands that fetches it all, corresponding to the release,
is what many people that are say 3/4 using and 1/4 trying
to fix/enhance/understand, might want.  With the caveat that
before they get too carried away, they might want to see if
whatever they want to do hasn't already been done in the latest&greatest,
and pointers like you gave to help them find same.

Or to put it another way, from an external perspective, I think the
process and information needed to set up a suitable build system and retrieve
all the bits suitable to (re)build a particular version, while somewhat documented,
need to be simpler, better documented, more visible, and more readily
perceived as transparent.  That holds both for recent releases subject to some
level of support, as well as the bleeding edge, IMO.
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