Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:29:32PM +0200, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> 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 :(

I do not see it really excluded, but you could package it for yourself
in your home:

Ciao, Marcus
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