* Stephan Kulow
On 03.07.2015 12:16, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
Why should package submission be optional, why not take everything that is in Factory and not yet in:42? It has always been the deal that by submitting a package to Factory one implicitly agrees to maitain it for supported releases as well. In the past releases also were maintained for
Because 42 is not Factory and sometimes it needs porting and testing.
longer, after that the Evergreen approach also worked well for 11.4. Why should that be any different now? Having both less drivers and less packages just makes it less and less attractive. If you want to spend time on bringing more of Factory to 42, you're invited to do so.
I am already maintaining more than 100 packages, that just isn't feasible. Besides, having to put more work into an inferior product which is less useful to me and many others is not motivating either. So this will be the end of my involvement with openSUSE, putting a frequently cited mantra a bit differently, I'll leave that work to those who feel entitled to decide. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org