On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
We are interested in creating a centralized repository of packaged software following some guidelines/policies to integrate properly, right?
Yes, I guess we all agree! For now I'd just like to point out one thing: Please drop the idea of one centralized distribution that everyone is trying to get changes / packages in. I know that this sound very strange at first, but it will be fundamental for the future success of openSUSE!
Hmm, I'm not sure I follow you. Why should we drop this idea? And why is droping it fundamental for the future success of OpenSUSE?
Robert and Daniel already gave great summaries of why this makes sense - there isn't much I could add to it right now ;)
Isn't this, to allow participation from everyone in building SuSE (in, among others, the form of changes / packages), the point of OpenSUSE?
Yes, but the idea of distributed / parallel distribution development contrary to a centralized approach doesn't prevent anyone from participating. Actually I guess it will rather make a much broader participance possible! But again, it will definitely take some time to get there... Regards Christoph