At Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:19:51 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:40:29 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Takashi Iwai wrote:
But, the questions regarding the package maintainer is still quite open. One typical example is M17N repo. Since Mike left, we have no people working on this area. So I eventually volunteered to fix / improve the issues. But, if really no one takes care any more? Then obviously we can't have M17N stuff on openSUSE anymore.
Do you want it to be so?
Its not a question of me or anyone else wanting anything. The question is do we have resources to reasonably[1] maintain M17N stuff in openSUSE. If you, as someone involved in the devel project, say that we don't have resources then we simply _can't_. Even if you, me and everyone else want it.
That's true.
If not, what is your proposal to avoid it?
My proposal was, from the beginning, that we break the 1:1 package:maintainer relation and people start to work in groups and share the load of responsibility and work. This way can carry more with less. I'm still hopeful that this will happen in the future.
Yes, this is one thing. Another missing thing is, however, that each system needs regular health checks. If you are aware of lack of vitamin C, you can eat more fruits or tablets. If we are aware of SERIOUS lack of maintainability in certain areas, we can reassign resources from other areas (in theory). For a big project like openSUSE, we need health checks from both the macroscopic and the microscopic viewpoints. The former can't be done alone by devel projects. That is, you guys need to listen which part aches in the whole body. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org