[Angstrom-devel] Maintenance of unstable feed

[Rod Whitby]

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>    But if we don't invite people to cooperate on one well-maintained
> repo, we push them to setup their own feeds and organize feed
> graveyards like http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/IpkgFeeds

I must disagree with this statement.  As a real counter-example, the
NSLU2-Linux project has tens of thousands of users, and they *all* use
packages from official feeds built by a single autobuilder.  There are
no unofficial feeds that we know of, and there are no binary uploads, by
anyone, ever.

The key points to achieving this are:

1) If source code is not accessible in a public repository, then it
effectively does not exist.

2) If a binary cannot be built automatically using publicly available
build scripts by any third-party from publicly available source
repositories, then it cannot be released.

-- Rod