[maemo-developers] garage upload policy Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

ext Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> Just to clarify this, there is no policy that each package needs to have
> project (and sources) in garage? Once I have one project may I upload
> other (unrelated) packages?
> 
Yes, you may. Currently there is no policy which would say otherwise.

> I'm asking because I'd like to put scummvm [1] into extras repository
> but think that duplicating scummvm svn repository and creating project
> is not needed. It is straight recompile from upstream repository
> configured for SDL backend only with few key remapping patches. I
> already have one unrelated project (bootmenu) so I can upload (not tried
> yet).  So far was not sure about this policy. Or do you prefer many
> almost empty projects for each port? Such scummvm project can maybe host
> nice pages made by Tomas [2] or maybe few diffs to upstream version
> until there is proper maemo port but still I think it is not enough to
> satisfy garage project.
> 
You are right. There is absolutely no point to have empty projects, just
because of the upload rights to extras. In practice one only needs a
garage account to get these rights, you don't even need a project.

I think we should refine or define the upload policy together. Maybe we
need to write something "formal" to the garage wiki [1] first and
discuss the matter in a separate mail thread.

> Frantisek
> 
Cheers,
ferenc

[1] https://maemo.org/maemowiki/MaemoGarageStartUp