Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (249 mails)

[Karsten König <remur@xxxxxxx>]

Am Samstag, 10. April 2010 19:32:15 schrieb Raymond Wooninck:
> On 04/09/2010 04:06 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> >  So what I propose is that KDE:Extra is created and the workflow is not
> >
> > free-for-all. I.e. repo-wide maintainers are not handed out to everybody
> > but only to some people with certain trust and experience. And by that I
> > don't mean that I myself want to rule the repo with an iron hand, but
> > this should simply assure certain review and prevent obvious screwups
> > like the recent libqt4 inclusion in KDE:KDE4:Community. Repo-wide
> > maintainers would be people willing to take care of the repo as a whole.
>
> Why do we not follow the setup that openSUSE as a distribution has ? We
> have the standard repo's (Stable, Factory and Unstable) and then we
> could have a Contrib repo instead of the Community repo. o:F:Contrib (or
> 11.2:Contrib) serves the same purpose as that it should offer packages
> created by the community to enhance what is delivered from the Standard.
> Contrib alos follows a more strict ruling as that it knows repo-wide
> maintainers and package-specific maintainers.

Hmm Contrib will be frozen from time to time, still I like the idea, for 
Backports you could always build the Contrib:Factory for 11.2 as well etc.
Though I don't really know the current situation of :Contrib, I know it was 
planned to merge with Factory but that was dropped. So is it there to stay? 
Anything else to say, like currently only few maintainers or similar?

> The question could become one day that we have version x from a package
> that builds for 4.3.x and 4.4.x, but the newer version y does no longer
> build for 4.3.x. What would be then the logic ? Keep version x as that
> it builds for the larger audience or move to version y and disable the
> builds for 4.3.x ?

The Contrib structure would sort that out, we could make multiple Contrib 
repos like currently done in the main Contrib repo (version of 11.1, 11.2, 
Factory). Though this is of course generating more maintainer work =/


> Regards
>
> Raymond

Cheers!
Karsten
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