Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

["Birger Kollstrand" <birger.kollstrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I cut the post a bit because it vas so many subjects in it. My comment
here is on the stability discussion.

2008/8/17 Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> To summarize a bit:
> 1) who decides whether something is OK to be packaged in contrib ?
> 2) how do we decide on sufficient stability/quality for packages to go
> intro contrib ?

A set of checks can be made here:
- does the programmer(s) of the SW consider the SW to be stable?
- Is the SW stable in other mature distros? Fedore, Debian, Mandrake or Kubuntu
- Is the SW maintained on a regular basis?
- Is the SW programmer(s) interested in working with openSUSE?
- an OBS project excists for the SW

If the selected criterias (not necicarily the ones above) are met,
then it should be taken in to Contrib and a set of basic tests run.
The tests should focus only on packaging/distro relatet issues. The
screening above should make it clear the it functionality wise is ok.

> 3) we need experienced packagers and/or top-notch packagers who do
> peer-review
> 4) we'll need even more beta-testers (which are potentially harder to
> find than packagers), have to think about announcements, raising
> interest ("marketing" ?), make it as easy as possible for testers to
> contribute, report whether it works or not, ...
> 5) do we freeze package versions or do we freeze the whole repository
> once it is bound to a released openSUSE version ? (if "foo" is stable
> and goes into contrib, do we only build it for Factory or also for
> already released openSUSE versions ?)


Regards Birger
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