-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Klaas Freitag wrote:
on behalf of Adrian I am happy to annouce our roadmap for the upcoming openSUSE Buildservice development here: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Roadmap It outlines the development targets until Q4 2008. We're happy to get your feedback,
One task that is notably missing is the reorganization of the repositories.
Right now it's seriously starting to become a mess, I'm afraid :\
Marcus (Rueckert) mentioned on IRC that is was planned for after the
10.3 release rush phase.
Is it considered too little of a task to be listed on the Roadmap ? ;)
(if so, I'd strongly disagree ;))
Note that it also means discussing and finding guidelines about a few
things, most notably: repositories and packages by desktop environment
(KDE:*, GNOME:*) or by task (client:messaging, multimedia:photo) ?
Or some here and some there, as it is now ? (which is quite suboptimal IMO)
As an example, gimp is in GNOME:STABLE, gqview is in multimedia:photo;
konversation is in KDE:KDE3, irssi in server:messaging.
Oh, yeah, and that's one of my pet peeves (Marcus knows about it ;)):
there are some obvious repositories/categories that are missing:
- - client:messaging
- - client:mail
- - client:ftp
- - system:utilities
...
(or move *:irc/* into *:messaging ? merge filesharing and client:ftp as
filetransfer ? etc...)
Don't get me wrong, it's not a criticism in any way, it just grew out of
almost nothing (in terms of amount of repositories and packages) and is
definitely a huge success, which is why we're having the current situation.
Just seems to me that it's a good time to step back a little because
we've reached a sufficient mass of packages and repositories to be able
to draw a big picture.
And then come up with some discussions on how to make it consistent,
less messy, with less repositories (adding 20 repositories isn't that
great either IMO) and make some guidelines out of it to prevent having
chaos again in half a year.
just my .2 EUR tip
cheers
- --
-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
/\\