Dne pátek 20. listopadu 2020 17:02:42 CET, Martin Wilck napsal(a):
> On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 15:32 +0000, Kristyna Streitova wrote:
> > I would like to point you to the pretty extensive article about
> > news and important changes in openSUSE Packaging we wrote. It
> > covers recent changes in macros, paths, tags and also new and
> > cool features in RPM or OBS.

It looks very detailed (good), but not for beginners. Was this intentional?
:-)

> > Visit:
> > https://packageninjas.github.io/packaging/2020/10/13/
> > news-in-packaging.html

Could it be also at https://news.opensuse.org/ and/or https://
planet.opensuse.org/ ? It'd help people to find it.

> > I believe that whether you are a pro package maintainer
> > or just a casual packager who wants to catch up, you will
> > definitely find here something you didn’t know.
>
> This feels very wrong to me. Contributors, in particular "casual
> packagers", shouldn't have to go through a 30-page document(*) just to
> keep up with changes in packaging. Packaging should be *easy*, *fun*,
> and *quick*, and should take as little as possible precious developer
> attention. We've turned it into a science, and a cumbersome and boring
> one at that. I haven't researched any details, but at a glance it feels
> as if we're deprecating things that we've introduced just a short while
> ago.

I was browsing https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Packaging if I find some quick
howto for dummies (BFU), but I wasn't successful. IMHO something like this ---
up-to-date and enough fool-proof --- would be super beneficial for everyone,
especially for casual packagers.

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