Am 24.01.2011 15:36, schrieb Mike Gabriel:
we (Heinz, Mike, Jonas Smedegaard) are currently forming a Debian packaging team and are discussing / working towards a Debian ITP for X2go...
We need to go still a little futher but once we have some definite news, I/we will let you know.
Is there a reason for doing so off list? I can totally understand if you ignore other peoples comments for efficiency reasons, but for me it feels like there is only little progress (especially as this is going on since oktober) and the first result wasn't very helpful. I am very unhappy with the current situation because I have a hard time persuading anyone of x2go, and a bad stand for getting manpower for two reasons: One is the current situation of the repo. For me it is incomprehensible why it isn't possible to at least make the current repo available publicly, so the different people working on x2go can synchronize their work. If I can't how should I persuade others? The other is the kind of project management. Especially reading the mails from October, I strongly get the impression, that there is an inner circle of developers who are not very interested in opening there development work to others. I read a similar undertone in the mails concerning the security issues we uncovered. Or in other words: While x2go is open source the development seems very closed. I don't want to devaluate the work done so far. x2go is probably one of the most usable solutions so far. None the less, the code does need an overhaul, before we can use x2go in our environment - finding those severe security issues wasn't too much work. While I think that I'm able to get some manpower to get things forward I'm afraid this will not be a happy partnership due to the aforementioned reasons. Again, this is my personal view and I really appreciate your work. None the less I'd also appreciate, if the core team would open up, and make contributions from outside more easy.
Cheers Morty
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