Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ruby (28 mails)

[Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Pavol Rusnak write:
> On 30/03/11 16:27, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> > we dont even manage to keep all the packages in the dlre up2date.
> > do you really think we will have the man power to maintain 600 in a
> > distro under the current rules? (and no i dont object the rules. they
> > are there for a reason.)
>
> No we don't and we won't have the power if we keep being exclusive
> instead of inclusive. That's what we're trying to change for the last
> few months or maybe years. I am not proposing anything concrete, I am
> just asking for opinions.
>
> > that said ... i dont think pushing every of those packages into the
> > distro is needed. especially as dlre is a relatively confined area and
> > not many overlappings with other projects.
>
> Maybe it helps if I rephrase the question: Do we want to have some
> out-of-the-box experience for Ruby people (with the possibility of
> outdated packages) or rather none at all?
>
> PS: I'm fine with both options, but I want to make sure we all are on
> the same page, because I don't think this was discussed previously ...

I think that we should at first decide how should look our ruby ecosystem, 
because part of out ruby libraries is not packed as rubygems, so all 
dependencies cannot easy use it without tweaking spec file. Examples is facter 
or puppet in factory. I think we should at first define how looks ruby library 
in our distro and what level of support we want provide because many gems 
contain even trivial mistakes.
Pepa


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Josef Reidinger
Appliance Toolkit team
maintainer of perl-Bootloader and parts of webyast and SLMS
author of rubygems - studio_api and net_observer (coauthor)
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