Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 29 octobre 2008, à 01:45 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez a écrit :
> Hi:
>
> Even though I decided to contribute to the "Contrib" repository as a
> reviewer and indeed think there is a sproblem with the repository
> layout I still have a number of bad feelings, it smells bad for me,
> sorry! Im going to summarize what I think is wrong with this idea.
>
> From the organization point of view, it persist in the wrong way of
> seeing community contributors as "second class" citizens, that needs a
> separate repository, isolated from the main distribution, this is by far
> my biggest concern.
>
> Technically, it has mayor issues
>
> - No clear submission process
> - No security policies
> - No maintenance policies
> - No timeframe to get things done ( no, we cannot keep going forever, it
> would be impossible to test)
> - there is no QA team.
> - the contrib list does not show any noticeable activity
> - Due to the previous problems, It may become the "abandonware" repository.
> - No specific bugzilla component.
> - Possible many other "details" Im missing because Im not kinda the
> "process" kid on the block.
>
> No, things said here http://en.opensuse.org/Contrib are not enough ;-)
>
> So far, I fail to see this going anywhere and while I think the
> existance of this repository is fundamentally flawed Im still willing to
> help because it may provide us some lessons to learn the hard way before
> moving to a different approach.
>
> Any thoughts out there ?

FWIW, the GNOME team is (maybe a bit slowly) working towards pushing
packages from GNOME:Community to Contrib so that those packages get more
exposure (and are easier to find for users). We'd like to use G:C as a
staging area for Contrib, like we use GNOME:Factory as a staging area
for openSUSE:Factory.

Vincent

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