On Friday 2021-05-14 11:26, Eric Schirra wrote:
And why is [cyrus-imapd] still offered by many other distributions like Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos, Mageia? Why can it still be built and installed there?
If nobody from the openSUSE community takes care, it doesn't matter if it is a large important or a small unimportant package. And that nobody takes care means, it cannot be an important package. Else there would be somebody who cares.
I understand what you mean. But there is something wrong with openSUSE / SUSE. At some point you won't find a maintainer for apache. Then this is also no longer an important package?
Precisely. important | ^ | | v | maintained If apache, in some future, declines in importance because virtually all users have moved to nginx or whatever, then the maintainers will eventually drop off too sooner or later. Conversely, if maintainers have dropped off, that means the effort was disproportionate to its business importance.
How does SUSE make this clear to its enterprise customers? "Sorry, the community no longer has a maintainer, so no cyrus and apache, you just have to take something else".
Iff there is a business value in cyrus, SUSE will provide a maintainer. Conversely, if there is no force-assigned maintainer, there is no business value in it for SUSE.