Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Robert Kaiser <KaiRo@xxxxxxxx>]

Birger Kollstrand wrote:
> 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.

So you would exclude things like xmms2 from the beginning? D'Oh. I so 
much would have liked to see openSUSE packages to try that one :(

Robert Kaiser
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