-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Posting from Alexey's "Requesting to create a top level project "Contrib"" post: Pascal Bleser wrote:
Either you want a coordinated effort with several contributors or you just rush something badly thought out on your own. If you want the former, then we're not done discussing it.
For example, I have some doubts about your list of candidates on the
wiki page [1]. To be more specific, dynagen/dynamips? Who the hell cares
about those ? You and 5 other people ? Does that make it a good
candidate for being in the contrib repository ? (playing devil's
advocate here)
[1]http://en.opensuse.org/Contrib/packages
As I replied in your above mentioned post, if you/we want this to be a
coordinated effort of several and not a one-man-show of Alexey,
- - we need a sufficient number of good packagers, not just 2 or 3
- - we need to think about, discuss, define the release cycle (freezing,
announcing, etc...)
- - the list of candidates shouldn't be "what Alexey needs right now"
e.g.: what do we think is an appropriate size for the repository to be ?
- - just shove anything into it and possibly end up with a huge repository;
- - keep it small and well tested
?
Do we want to have a
contrib-(staging|beta|unstable|experimental|testing) repository where
packages have to undergo some reported tests before they end up in contrib ?
We should also at least think grossly about a process to request
packages for the contrib repository (e.g. bugzilla).
I'm really not a process type of guy, but a bare minimum should be
written down on the wiki before we start, and if we want people
(packagers and testers) to join the effort, they have to know exactly
what they (are going to|would) participate in.
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser