Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-contrib (276 mails)

[Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 12 of February 2009 14:54:11 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on 02/11/2009 03:21 PM Michal Vyskocil wrote:
> > On Friday 30 of January 2009 12:40:00 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> > > on 01/30/2009 02:11 AM Lars Vogdt wrote:
> > > > 1) How frozen is frozen?
> > > >
> > > > As far as I understand, contrib will contain
> > > > Contrib:Factory   => current development
> > > > Contrib:<release> => frozen repository
> > >
> > > Correct.
> > >
> > > > Each maintainer should maintain his package for Contrib:Factory and
> > > > Contrib:<release>, right?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> >
> > Really? I think that we talk that every maintainer lost the permissions
> > after freeze and updates will be handled via submitreq.
>
> I understood that the question was about maintainership and not about
> how to submit something. So about who is responsible for doing the
> patch. And this is the maintainer for both Factory:Contrib and
> 11.2:Contrib.
>
> > I don't see any big advantages of this rule in Contrib, which contains at
> > least leaf packages (like apg, or gle-graphics). I suppose we should be
> > less strict and allow a version update in frozen repository when it will
> > be necessary.
>
> We can phrase this differently. The rule is that new features are
> strongly discouraged (this is actually how it is handled in Factory).
> Does that sound better?

Yes, it sound better.

> > BTW: I suggest adapt a Fedora Maintainers Policy [2] for Contrib, because
> > those things needs to be written!
>
> I'm against writing down common sense stuff. Makes life complicated :)

It makes things more clear (even a maintenance of this documentation is not 
easy), because everyone will knows what to do if <something>. Currently we 
don't know who will be able to do an update in frozen Contrib, because we 
didn't write it as a rule. We don't want how to deal with non-responsing 
maintainers, ...

I think that distribution with community participation as Debian or Fedora has 
these rules, because they're necessary.

> Henne
>
> --
> Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE.
> Everybody has a plan, until they get hit.
>       - Mike Tyson

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