Am Samstag 16 August 2008 schrieb Alexey Eremenko:
Hi,
(cross-posting to OBS & Factory)
We would like to create a top-level project for third-party packages for openSUSE, named: "Contrib".
Our goals is to setup some kind of universal repository for third-party packages.
This repository should be viewed as a community-driven extension of Factory, with all standards and limitations applied.
Current model of third-party packages for openSUSE is broken in many user's opinion. There are lots of packages across hundreds of Build Service projects, which is hard to download & navigate. Packages are often duplicates, and aren't tested. Current model is good for experimentation and development but is bad idea for deployment.
We already created openSUSE:Factory:Contrib, which will be the home of the repo. Once we go into release mode of 11.1, we'll fork into openSUSE:11.1:Contrib - I'm maintaining these projects for now and I will add a team of people, once the rules are clear and these rules are used to create a list of packages to take from what home project. Gretings, Stephan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org