Re: GNOME git repositories?

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 12/27/06, Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net> wrote:
> Thomas Thurman wrote:
>
> > 1) Launchpad already knows about all the GNOME projects. Would it be
> > possible to use Rosetta actually on Launchpad just for the translation part
> > of each project? (From my limited knowledge of Launchpad, I think it
> > would.)
>
> Let's not repeat the BitKeeper fiasco.

Agreed.

> > 2) Aren't they planning on freeing Rosetta eventually? Maybe suggesting
> > that we would use it would push them over the edge?
>
> November 2005, in Montreal, Mark promised to do so....

Someone should start a project named 'Harmony' to reimplement Rosetta;
that should do the trick, once it gets rolling anyway[1].  (It almost
seems to me that this might be the only way; I've been surprised at
how long Canonical has kept their projects proprietary when I thought
they said they were going to be freeing them.  Maybe I was just
misunderstanding though, and they never made such a claim?)


Cheers,
Elijah

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/209497/