[725] in athena10
External contributors to Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Dec 11 01:14:31 2008
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:13:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: athena10@mit.edu
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Apparently, there is interest in external contributions to
Debathena/Athena 10 (see below) and membership on debathena@mit.edu (which
is on athena10@mit.edu). I see a few issues that this brings up that I'd
like to briefly discuss before we add people not affiliated with MIT:
(1) Licensing. Currently, Athena 10 has code under the GPL, MIT license,
and some of the Debian packaging are "public domain". I think that the
standard OSS model of accepting contributions under the same license as
the existing software is probably fine.
(2) I think we should change the "public domain" notices for the Debian
packages to "MIT license" statements, since it's more standard in the OSS
world and makes life easier for dealing with external contributions.
(3) How should they submit patches? I intend to ask them to email
athena10@mit.edu, since that is currently the primary development list
(debathena@ is now fairly low-traffic).
(4) Is having someone not associated with MIT on athena10@ is likely to
cause any problems? It does have more MIT internal policy discussion than
might be ideal for this purpose currently.
The alternative model is probably to try to use debathena@mit.edu
(currently low-traffic because we've tried to move essentially all
debathena@ technical discussions to athena10@) for discussions that aren't
in the MIT internal policy space (e.g. Dash sunset effort discussions),
and redoing the membership structures so that instead athena10@ is on
debathena@ (or similar).
(5) Are there any important issues here that I've forgotten?
-Tim Abbott
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:15:31 -0500
From: Daniel Gomez <gomez@Teragram.com>
To: "debathena-request@mit.edu" <debathena-request@mit.edu>
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Subject: Subscription request
Hello,
I would like to request a subscription to the Debathena mailing list for
the address <oss@teragram.com>.
This is on behalf of Teragram, a local company (offices up near Alewife)
that makes extensive use of Ubuntu and Debian Linux plus OpenAFS in its IT
infrastructure. We have been cherry-picking various components of
Debathena to implement our own Athena-like environment on top of AFS, and
in addition to having a queue of patches and other work that we would like
to send upstream, we would like to stay informed of the general progress
being made in the Debathena project.
--Daniel
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Daniel Gomez || gomez@teragram.com || (617) 576-6800 x230
Software Developer, Teragram Corp. (a division of SAS)
http://www.teragram.com/
