-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/10/14 17:29, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
Hi,
during our Hackweek at SUSE I spent a day or two to improve my tool to help finding the maintainer for software in Factory, which comes in handy for bugzilla-screening (getting bugs to the right people).
You can use the tool at http://maintainer.zq1.de/
one thing I forgot to mention since I parsed all those package databases, I noticed that openSUSE is rather on the low end of number of packages in the list of those active distributions that I found slackware 1328 entries voidlinux 6451 entries centos 7009 entries archlinux 8259 entries opensuse 8655 entries mageia 12839 entries altlinux 17621 entries fedora 17698 entries gentoo 18519 entries debian 23914 entries ubuntu 25417 entries There are some reasons I know of and probably some more 1. We dont always split off sub-packages and the count is for source-packages (at least for openSUSE - for some others it counts binary packages) 2. We are quick to drop packages that dont build. And sometimes that even breaks packages in devel projects because those usually just link to Factory 3. We dont bother submitting everything from devel projects. I see that a lot with the games repo, but I guess there are others containing useful software that is not in Factory for various reasons - - e.g. because we always want the latest version to be used everywhere and submitting maintenance-updates is not as easy as just telling people to use the extra repo. Maybe we should do something similar to the old Greg-K-H Tumbleweed where we create an overlay repo that only contains leaf packages in their latest stable version but that builds for all released openSUSE+SLE versions. That does not overlap with https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Backports:SLE-12 because it only contains packages that are in Factory. Ciao Bernhard M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlaU3ekACgkQSTYLOx37oWS1PACgkVqiio20t4oliFovXmBSPJks 9NQAniDvsxTdAoEk+QLkNWGDophHwqgC =82uF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org