On 04/02/2010 03:50 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote:
I'd like to stress one thing here. All of the repositories under KDE: are openSUSE repositories, so all of them are community repositories. Some of the ideas that were mentioned during yesterday's IRC meeting like that KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop is Novell-only are mistaken. Repositories are maintained by whoever will do the work and is trusted enough by the rest. That originally was only Novell people but that was because originally only those met the criteria. That is no longer the case.
I guess that the Community repository is more expressing that it contains packages/applications/plasmoids/utilities/etc originally created by people not belonging to the KDE project, but wanted to contribute. Of course a package can become so popular/wanted, that it becomes part of the KDE project itself. At that moment it will move from this Community repo to the standard KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop repo.
'Not belonging to the KDE project' is rather fuzzy, and I'd consider that to be a quite unsuitable rule for repository organization anyway. It's currently not the case anyway, KKFD is 'what is in o:F', so it includes also e.g. kde-apps.org stuff if it's worthwhile. So there is a place for second repo, which would be 'what is not in o:F' and contain stuff that would be worth placing at least there. But 'Community' is not a good name for that. Additionally, since it is provided in Yast, I would really expect at least some assurance of quality there[*]. How does KDE:KDE4:Community actually currently work? The repo-wide maintainer list is pretty long and I don't know many of those people, to me it looks like it's some free-for-all repo. Or are others here really fine with providing such a repo in Yast? [*] I mean, WTH is e.g. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=libqt4&project=KDE:KDE4:Community ?? That does not belong there, at all. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org