Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Always keep in mind that packages in Factory are _very_ different from
> packages in any other repository, because it means that
> - - there _must_ be a committed maintainer (security, bugfixes) for every
> single one of them, currently it even has to be a Novell employee

Yep.

> - - every package there has to be maintained for many years (for the
> lifetime of the corresponding SLE, actually)

There is actually quite a lot in Factory that is not in SLE (such as
a dozen plus window managers) and even where there is overlap, why not
be more flexible on the openSUSE side and have joint maintainership for
example?

Right now openSUSE receives security updates for 24 months, though we 
could reduce this and/or make this more of a community thing as well.

> - - Novell provides support to SLE customers (see level1->level3) for
> those packages, 24/7

Yes, but again only for SLE, not Factory, so Factory can (and should)
be treated more flexibly.

Gerald
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