I cut the post a bit because it vas so many subjects in it. My comment here is on the stability discussion. 2008/8/17 Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org>:
To summarize a bit: 1) who decides whether something is OK to be packaged in contrib ? 2) how do we decide on sufficient stability/quality for packages to go intro contrib ?
A set of checks can be made here: - does the programmer(s) of the SW consider the SW to be stable? - Is the SW stable in other mature distros? Fedore, Debian, Mandrake or Kubuntu - Is the SW maintained on a regular basis? - Is the SW programmer(s) interested in working with openSUSE? - an OBS project excists for the SW If the selected criterias (not necicarily the ones above) are met, then it should be taken in to Contrib and a set of basic tests run. The tests should focus only on packaging/distro relatet issues. The screening above should make it clear the it functionality wise is ok.
3) we need experienced packagers and/or top-notch packagers who do peer-review 4) we'll need even more beta-testers (which are potentially harder to find than packagers), have to think about announcements, raising interest ("marketing" ?), make it as easy as possible for testers to contribute, report whether it works or not, ... 5) do we freeze package versions or do we freeze the whole repository once it is bound to a released openSUSE version ? (if "foo" is stable and goes into contrib, do we only build it for Factory or also for already released openSUSE versions ?)
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