[Ubuntu] UbuntuGIS PSC Creation

[Randal Hale]

and here I go jumping in.....

So being a "non developer" but a heavy gis user - I'm all for forming 
some sort of committee to help with packaging. I would like to even 
learn how to do it and contribute back - most of my packaging has been a 
bit....oh....not something I'm proud of but it's worked. I would love to 
learn to do it right. I'm one part of a two person operation - my cohort 
works with software on windows - I'm on the linux side of life. I would 
probably go back to my first love of debian but the packaging has always 
been more hit or miss than it has on ubuntu....and I was actually under 
the impression that Debian GIS wasn't active anymore....and I'm hoping 
based off these discussion I'm wrong.

Randy

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On 11/13/2013 05:58 AM, Hamish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alex:
>> and even making sure we have 1 person who is both DebianGIS and
>> Ubuntugis for coordination.
> without getting too presumptuous, Frankie L. is an obvious person to
> approach, but failing that that a crossover person could be me, but
> tbh I'm not really sure how a PSC would actually benefit UbuntuGIS or
> OSGeo. A PSC is good for making strategic and political decisions, but
> 95% of our issues are technical ones where the wider pool of
> developers participate in "may the soundest idea win". The main
> strategic decision we have right now is the repo re-naming, which I
> think most of us are in fair agreement about anyway.
>
> I'm all for breathing life into the project in whatever way we can,
> but at the same time am concerned about adding new layers of
> bureaucracy which might morph into a time+energy sink/inefficiency,
> and avoiding the situation of too many chiefs & not enough braves.
> Another thing to be concerned with in small groups like ours is to
> avoid the appearance of a cabal, where new contributors don't feel
> part of the technical decision making group, and we desperately need
> those new contributors to be part of the technical decision making
> group.. On the other hand I fully accept Alan's concerns about his
> bus factor, in DebianGIS for a long time we've relied on Frankie
> in the same way.
>
>
> just some thoughts,
> Hamish
>
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