Cristian Rodríguez
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.
I would love to have contribution for factory itself as well. What I don't know yet is how the interaction should work. We currently need to have a Novell packager to answer these questions: * how to handle security updates? Some of these are confidential when they get reported? How to ensure delivery? * how to handle maintenance for enterprise products for these packages? What kind of model could work here? Nevertheless I think contrib is a good idea - it would allow some loser rules than we have in factory and a full ownership by the community. I think we want both ;)
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