Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-contrib (9 mails)

[Peter Linnell <mrdocs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 16 October 2008 11:13:51 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Michal Vyskocil napsal(a):
> > > I know, that suse staff has too much work with new openSUSE/SLE Beta
> > > releases, but this would be interesting for community and they could
> > > also help. So I would like to ask - what now with Contrib? Do you think,
> > > that everything is ready for public announcement, or we are waiting for
> > > something? If yes, then what is necessary to be done?
> >
> > I think that everything is more or less ready but I haven't had time to
> > write an announcement yet :(. Anyone else?
>
> yea...
>
> Just take from here:
> http://en.opensuse.org/Contrib
>
> We should derive it from "Vision" part of our page...
>
> Just modify it so more users will be interested
> We need to make it sound more sexy
>
> ======================================================
>  Contrib: The Universal openSUSE Repository for Third-party Packages
>
> Vision
>
> We want to make a new model, which suites better deployment and
> distribution. Our goal is to setup some kind of universal repository for
> third-party packages. This repository should be viewed as a
> community-driven extension of Factory, with all it's standards and
> limitations applied.
> Getting everything into Factory is right now not an option since for
> Factory we have Novell employees as maintainers to guarantee updates.
> In the long run this might change once Contrib is successful.
> The consensus of the community members discussing this is to establish
> a big, united third-party packages repository for openSUSE (in the
> Build Service), with the goal of making those packages stable and
> easily searchable & downloadable.
> This repository sits somewhere in between openSUSE itself "Factory",
> and small user's Build Service projects, where few packages usually
> exist.
>
>
> --
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

Well one thing which definitely needs to be done is some sort of review 
criteria. 

Cheers,

Peter
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