On Mon, 2019-12-16 at 18:36 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Hm, maybe we can tell this to the maintainer of the statistic to somehow add builds from other OBS repos?
I got the impression that it is basically forbidden to use foreign repos together with Tumbleweed, or at least heavily frowned upon here? At the very least it must not be promoted on this list?
openSUSE Tumbleweed is released under the GPL-2.0 as an overall license. As such, a statement such as "xyz is forbidden" is against the license being used. Every user of openSUSE Tumbleweed is free to do with it as she/he pleases and as it serves her/his needs. What you probably mean is that we, 'the openSUSE project', discourage the use of additional repositories. The reasoning for this is not in that we don't like those repos, but most have a timing issue in even keeping up with the fast pace (changed ABI/APIs; 3rd party repos can only start building once a new snapshot is out, causing a gap, or they start building when we are still in 'Factory', but then risk publishing RPMs that are not yet installable on currently published Tumbleweed) And I hope it is clear that 'openSUSE Tumbleweed' can't accept bug reports for anything coming from a 3rd party repo that is not, or not any more, working. What we DO encourage though is that maintainers of packages in 3rd party repos bring those packages direclty into Tumbleweed and preferably also add an openQA test around it. Like that breakage can be monitored/identified before a snapshot goes out and depending on what the breakage is, I might even consider blocking snapshots for the respective failure (that in turn depends largely on how reactive maintainers are when I file a bug report for their package. If I have to wait a week to get a fix, I will not consider said package important enough to block a snapshot for such a long time) The more good and tested packages Tumbleweed can ship on its own, the less important those 3rd party repos will become (as long as only legally distributable code is considered) Cheers, Dominique