Festival-* Issue
* I did ITP for festival-hi and festival-mr after Priti Patil of CDAC gave ‘New Year Gift’ to Indic Community! Now, suddenly, I got message in IRC when I was at work. And rest is the story. And lesson: If you releasing your software under GPL or similar license, let people do whatever they want. Obey the rules of particular community. Act quick (atleast for ITP!). And keep the good work continue!
* Thanks to Sankarshan for taking care of issue. May be We will have festival-hi and festival-mr in New queue. Cheers!
* IRC log is available here for people who want to see the issue.
This is not an issue of just a packaging and uploading but the unprofessional way of tackling the release.
Kartik says it is “Hijacking”, is it ethical to do so?
Doing ITP without author’s knowledge and confirmation (more precisely a consensus), is it a professional and ethical way of “Acting Quick”??
Readers please leave comments on this !
Priti
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This is the mail I sent to Priti before proceeding! Comment Please!!
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All the best !
Let me know if any help needed.
Regards
Priti
Quoting Kartik Mistry:
> > —– 
> >
> > —– Original message from Kartik Mistry
> >
> > Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:55:53 +0530
> > From: Kartik Mistry
> > Reply-To: kartik.mistry@magnettechnologies.com
> > Subject: Festival-* Debian package!
> > To: prithisd@cdacmumbai.in
> >
> > Hi Priti,
> >
> > Thanks for new year Gift! Festival-*
> >
> > Well, I have done ITP (the Debian way to announce that I am working on
> > this (these) package(s))!
> >
> > I will create this possibly during this weekend and will give you my
> > feedback. It can be use for both Debian and Ubuntu (generally Debian
> > unstable packages go to Ubuntu..)
> >
> > Thanks for your contribution! Keep good work continue…
> > –
> > Kartik Mistry
> >
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I think kart_ followed the right way. As a packager, he did the right things, a packager should always follow the rules.
Hope the packages in question are Open Source one
Festival-* are FOSS!
* This issue is mark as resolved! *
Kartik, I think you might try something else. Since the Debian Indic team has been established for the very purpose of supporting Indian languages in Debian, you can try putting Debian-In as the primary maintainer and yourself as the co-maint. That way, if anything like this happens in the future, you can always claim that there exists a (well-publicised) group for handling issues related to Indic support in Debian. And I think it is time that you encouraged Prasad to join the Debian-Indic team.
One unintended issue might be the fact that DDs ignore your contributions under Debian-In when they check your application status
. It happened to me, so I know. In my application, I was only credited with the aspell dictionaries, and my application has been marked as “Needs more work”. Too bad they chose to ignore ttf-indic-fonts. But that doesn’t bother me much, as I really don’t need DD status to contribute to Debian. Yes it would have been a nice recognition, but since they don’t choose to give me credit, they can have it their way.
I really think that all Indic related developments for Debian should go under Debian-In umbrella. That helps to avoid ego issues. Maybe you can have a talk with Jaldhar for this.
Dear Soumyadip,
Thanks for comment. I am planning to put aspell-gu and festival-* under umbrella of Debian-IN and under warm guidance of Jaldhar.
Thanks