Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Brian K. White <brian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/14/2011 2:49 AM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:31:31 PM Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> > > Am Mon 12 Sep 2011 11:59:12 PM CEST schrieb Roger Luedecke
> > >
> > > <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > Then sudenly a church
> > > > wants to move Sword over to the factory repo from Education (where it is
> > > > properly classified and placed) and now people can't just stop and take a
> > > > breath.
> > >
> > > IMO, it is not.  Adding the reader software is probably ok (assuming that
> > > it is untainted), but adding the contents is not.  I also do not add
> > > arbitrary books from gutenberg.org and especially not all the
> > > translations.
> > >
> > > If the sword developers need a file for testing convert a free document
> > > about Linux into the bible format, and you are done.
> > >
> > > This is my very personal view.
> >
> > Well, what is the point of having an education repo at all then?
>
> Repos hold software, or documentation about software, not general library 
> books.

We already have at least a Linux/programming few books in the repos.
(I just did a search for books.)

These are in the 11.4 main repo:

"Linux Installation and getting started" by Matt Welsh
"Linux Programmers Guide" by Sven Goldt and Sven van der Meer
"Linux Network Administrators Guide, Second Edition" by Olaf Kirch and
Terry Dawson
"Linux System Administrators Guide" by Lars Wirzenius
"Linux Users Guide" by Larry Greenfield
"Linux Kernel 2.4 Internals" by Tigran Aivazian
"The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide" by Ori Pomerantz

And a handful about programming in the education repo:

C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (First Edition) (ISBN 0131872494) by
Jasmin Blanchette & Mark Summerfield.

C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 (ISBN 0131240722) by Jasmin Blanchette &
Mark Summerfield.

Moving from Python 2 to Python 3 a "cheat sheet" for Python 2
programmers written for InformIT


I didn't know they were in OBS, but since they are I see no reason to
kick them out.  They don't violate the current policies, etc.  And
obviously someone cares enough to package them.

At least for books that don't violate other policies, I think that
should be the criteria instead of a blanket "No books allowed" policy.

I would especially like to see the opensuse created books in OBS.  ie.
A new OBS users guide was either just written or is in the process of
being written.  Having it in OBS would increase the odds of me finding
and downloading it.  And then who knows, maybe I'll even reference it!

Greg
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