On 05/04/2010 12:16 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le lundi 03 mai 2010, à 14:12 +0200, Pavol Rusnak a écrit :
On 04/26/2010 11:13 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Karsten König wrote:
I was wondering if there is a definite decision about how to go on forward with the seperation of Contrib and mainline Factory.
If I remember correctly Contrib was the place to submit stuff to as normal contributor to openSUSE, now Factory is open for everybody to submit stuff, based on reputation, skills and whatnot. So what's the future of Contrib now, this looks like a limbo state to me.
Ack. Contrib doesn't make sense to me either.
It did make sense when each package in Factory had to have a maintainer from Novell.
What I propose is the following:
a) branch o:F:C into o:11.3:C when Factory is branched into 11.3
b) once Factory is open for new packages, find devel projects for all packages in Contrib, move them there and send requests for inclusion Factory
c) once B is finished, kill o:F:C and maintain only forked version of Contrib (+properly communicate the changes so people will be aware they can (and should) push their packages into Factory)
Comments?
I like the plan (I've been pushing GNOME stuff from Contrib to Factory this cycle already ;-)). That being said, at least in GNOME, there are some packages that we don't feel comfortable integrating in Factory yet, but we still want to make them available easily. And we use Contrib for that.
Are there other people with a similar need? If no, we'll just find another way :-)
I agree to what Michael Vyskocil and you said. I have a small number of packages in Contrib which are useful for people but I cannot give them the same level of maintenance as I (would) do for stuff in Factory. E.g. that includes abook which was dropped from Factory a while ago because it doesn't progress anymore (who cares btw). So at some point people (from within Novell) dropped a lot of packages in favor of OBS and _even_ Contrib. Now we are turning around? Nothing really changed since then. It's also not obvious to people which packages in Factory end up in which product. So my current understanding is that everything in Factory ends up as official package in the FTP tree and needs to be maintained properly. For Contrib I would expect a bit loose rules as I understood it's "community supported" and doesn't get the same level of maintenance necessarily. If that changed or if I understood wrong please let us know. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org