On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 11:59 AM Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.com> wrote:
On Wed 2020-06-17, Dirk Müller wrote:
I would like to get your input and start a discussion around :
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:OpenSUSE_Distribution_Tiers_Policy
Thank you for kicking this off, Dirk!
This is a good initiative, and important to clarify and be open and transparent, and I like the document you prepared.
For the interest of tracking, please refrain from editing the main page, and use either the mailing list discussion here or the Talk page for comments/questions/considerations/feedback.
A small change I'd suggest is to avoid the use of the phrase "premium tier".
And make the "As of 2020" more specific, unless definitely nobody plans to propose any changes in the next 26 weeks. ;-)
From a messaging perspective, I recommend not to call the other ports "unofficial ports". They are officially part of openSUSE, I'd argue, just not Tier 1. (It's a bit like calling an assistant doctor and unofficial doctor. ;-)
I think it would be helpful to describe the distribution of responsibilities between individual package maintainers and the architecture teams. That is a note or two in the specific items of the policy, so more an overarching sentence along the lines of the following (which very raw and rought strawman only) as a preamble:
Individual package maintainers will strive to package things such that they build on all platforms they can reasonable support. The general working of an architecture (booting, kernel, toolchain,...) and architecture-specific build failures and bugs primarily resides with the architecture maintainers.
Hope this makes sense?
I think we should just straight up drop this idea of tiering. Is there a good reason we can't just go with primary and secondary architectures as other distros (Debian, Fedora, etc.) do? We can use "main" and "alternative" if "primary" and "secondary" make people uncomfortable. But tiering is a term I don't want to see invoked here, as it involves quality separation, which is not what this should be about. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org