Pascal Bleser napsal(a):
Sorry for breaking the thread, but it's on purpose: let's try to focus a bit on _one_ topic, the contrib repository (and please don't reply on minor points, we're discussing the big picture here.. one thing at a time :)).
Nice summary, indeed!
1) Duplication and home:* is killing the cat^WOBS ... -- others are good quality and exist under "home:" because it's either --- too tedious to get maintainer rights in one of the "real" OBS project (you might think it isn't, but people who contribute many packages in their free time can't just wait for a few hours to get access), or
If this is true, then we have a problem which is not going to go away with the contrib repository. I expect, and the discussion so far is supporting it, that the process of adding new packages to the Contrib repository will be a bit _more_ complicated / lengthy than it is with your average Build Service project - that's the price for stability.
--- we're lacking several "real" repositories (e.g. nowhere to put Jabber clients, command-line utilities, firewall tools, hardware related packages, ...)
This is also a problem on it's own IMO, we need these projects, Contrib or not: for backports of the latest and greatest (even if these are only source links to Factory or Factory:Contrib) or stuff that was rejected from Contrib for whatever reason.
We _really_ have to move good packages from home:* repos into the "real" ones and have duplicates removed.
Definitely!
4) Factory-staging is pointless ... Always keep in mind that packages in Factory are _very_ different from packages in any other repository, because it means that ... - every package there has to be maintained for many years (for the lifetime of the corresponding SLE, actually) - Novell provides support to SLE customers (see level1->level3) for those packages, 24/7
These two points are actually not true, not every package that is in Factory ends up in the next SLE. Therefore, no need to consider SLE in this discussion :). Michal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org