Hi, I would like to point out something that seems not obvious to everyone: Everyone can maintain packages in factory now There is no limitation anymore on who can maintain packages, _BUT_: - the package has to be submitted and reviewed into an _existant_ devel project - it has to build successfully against factory - the devel project has set a bugowner and maintainer for the package - preferably someone else from the devel project submits it to factory, but this is not a strict requirement - the submitrequest contains a note with informations about the package. Preferably you introduce the package to a mailing list (either topic or opensuse-factory) and point to that introduction in your submitrequest. The information we need are things like this: - who is the bugowner (has to be set in the package)? - how long has it been around? - how well has it been tested? - what is the upstream project? - does it have a track record of security issues? - what is the purpose of having it in the distribution? - what are its users? - what is the license (has to be set in the package)? The main purpose of requiring this informations in the submitrequest is that you think about such things before you write a script that dumps all of freshmeat into factory. I don't want to stop anyone from maintaining a package in our distribution, but I want every package to be maintained, not to be packaged - I hope you understand the difference. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org