Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-contrib (154 mails)

[Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 03 of June 2009 18:37:10 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> darn you Michal i thought i could have a quick trip home/dinner in
> between the mails to -factory and -contrib. You where way to fast! ;)

Sorry, but I'm glad that you sent the proposal to Factory, so we could start 
to discuss about this repository asap. ;-)

> Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > > 2.) drop Contrib and move all packages to appropiate devel project and
> > > Factory
> >
> > I choose this.
> >
> > Contrib was created especially because Factory people disallow
> > community to maintain openSUSE packages.
> > Since the original problem is gone, there is no point of having contrib.
>
> That was my argument as well. The best idea i heard so far for Contrib
> after the opening of Factory was to use it as a kind of Beginners
> Repository. For packagers that don't want to have the huge burden of the
> strict maintenance policy (which might get revised in the future) that
> Factory has. I'm all for this!

I don't like the term "Beginners Repository". Contrib should be an equivalent 
of Ubuntu's universe [1] - repository with no guarantee of support.

In Factory we guarantee (at least) security updates for almost 2 years, which 
must be backended by someone from Novell. And community maintainers are not 
interested in something like backporting of patches to 2 years old piece of 
software running on 2 years old distribution, so this will be probably done by 
Novell employers.

So instead of changing of existing rules for Factory, we could have Novell 
supported Factory and community based Contrib with no guarantee of support and 
no required Novell backend in case of troubles.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components

Best regards
Michal Vyskocil
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