Hallo,
I've got a request from Frank to add CentOS, Mandriva and openSUSE 11.4
into Java:packages. I personally do not like this idea - J:p is intended
to be a devel project for Factory. On the other hand, there might be
someone will be interested and will take a care. And I don't want to
block our community from that. So I am thinking about following concept
1.) create new Java:Factory project -> this will be the devel project for
Factory, so only openSUSE_Factory repository will be added
2.) make project link [1] from Java:Factory - Java:???. In this
project more targets can be enabled and it can have more maintainers
taking a care about such distributions.
3.) the changes in Java:??? will be submitted back to :Factory. If not,
then :??? project won't be synced with :Factory. This is a
responsibility of those will do the change.
I'm waiting on a comments, especially some nice name instead of ???,
which is probably not allowed in OBS ;-)
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Concept_project_linking
Regards
Michal Vyskocil