Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Dienstag 19 August 2008 schrieb Alexey Eremenko:
> > For now: Richard and Yaloki asked for contrib-unstable branch. Let's
> > discuss it. What is the advantage of contrib-unstable over users OBS anyway
> > ?
>
> I think this lowers the number of people testing it even more. And home:*
> is the unstable branch of contrib in the general case, so I see little use of 
> it. And after all, it's only developed against Factory and Factory alone has
> not enough users to split it.

Plus:
* it's one more possible source of error for packagers (package A newer
in contrib than in contrib-unstable, package B in contrib but not in
contrib-unstable, package C building fine in contrib-unstable, but not
in contrib)
* it's one more possible source of confusion when reporting and dealing
with bugs (
  "The splash screen in package D is not green!"
  "Are you sure you have the latest version? I fixed that last week"
  "I did 'zypper in D' and it's still not green!"
  "Oh, are you using the stable repository perhaps?")

Also, I think all of us will be happy if we attract enough packagers and
have some 100+ packages in the beginning. If massive amounts of changes
to Contrib turn out to be a problem later, we can always create
-unstable then.


> So I'm pretty much against that suggestion.

Me too, at least for now.

Michal
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