Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-contrib (154 mails)

[Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>]

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > So from my POW, we have those possibilities:
> > 1.) use the Contrib as one of devel projects for Factory
>
> No.

Agreed.

> > 2.) drop Contrib and move all packages to appropiate devel project and 
> > Factory
>
> This can be done, but I guess we do not want everything in Factory.

Agreed.


> > 3.) redefine a Contrib as a respository with less strict maintenance rules 
> > (eg. the "famous" version upgrades), because even if the Factory will be 
> > opened for community, every package must be maintained for cca 2 years (that 
> > means, three openSUSE releases + Factory). And community is not really 
> > interested on it.
>
> I would say we still need a "Other" repository for the stuff that won't get
> into Factory and Contrib is still well suited for it.

I think that Contrib with version upgrades is a way to go. There were
some people that wanted to help with Contrib, but dropped when they
realized that no version upgrades were allowed there.

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