* Robert Schweikert
This is where I disagree. I am saying that the process of getting a package into Contrib or Factory is not as straight forward as it should be. There are too many steps.
Fully agreed. There are actually two issues here to be solved 1. Giving users knowledge about and access to packages. This one got lots of attention during the openSUSE conference and a solution is currently being discussed on opensuse-softwaremgmt@opensuse.org The current proposal revolves around 'karma/trust' to find good packages and good maintainers. Let the community vote about the quality of packages, the ability of the maintainer to fix bugs, ease of installation, completeness of the documentation, you name it. 2. Making a package belong to the 'choosen ones' This is indeed tightly coupled to point 1 above because good karma is essential here. However, I wonder if the current model of 'pushing to Factory' can be extended. One extension could be voting (i.e. "Hey Coolo, Robert has this cool package in his home project, add it to Factory !"). Another would be adding 'pull requests' to the workflow. Instead of the package maintainer, the 'distribution maintainer' should choose which packages (resp. projects) he wants to have in his distribution. The package maintainer gets notified of pull requests and, if he accepts, all changes to his package get pulled into the distribution. Klaus --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org