2011/11/28 Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Markus Slopianka <markus.s@kdemail.net> wrote:
On Montag 28 November 2011 22:34:06 Kim Leyendecker wrote:
Anyway, could you please add a link? I still can´t believe it.... Really, that´s just bullshit.
My original complaint was a formal bug report regarding that openSUSE ships some untested snapshot of alpha-quality Chromium as part of the standard repository: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731832
I admit surprise.
I thought that bugzilla / thread related to the devel project, not to the 12.1 update repo.
As I read the bugzilla now, it seems to talk about both, but without a clear distinction.
Historically, I have seen alpha/beta products included in the gold master, with the explicit plan to release stable updates once they become available.
If that is the plan for Chromium, it seems okay, but not great.
Greg and all, Please consider the following: * If you install Chromium, then you know it's something which works like a development project for Chrome. Chromium web page sugests that it works a bit like a development project for Chrome. It provides technical data to: "(...) to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code." Chrome is supposed to be the stable product, not Chromium. So if you choose to install Chromium, you know it's a product that is always under heavy development. You probably want a bit of bleeding edge... Else you stay with Chrome (which is the stable product). From this perspective, is really Chromium package so bad? It's not trust me. Else just install it and use it for a week or two and then ask yourself if we really should wipe this package for openSUSE or just embrace it.
If the plan is distribute latest and greatest release from google via the 12.1 update channel, then I don't much care for that leads.
You can have both, and users wanting the bleeding edge "Chromium" or the stable product, Chrome can make the call. It does sound like an excellent way to me.
We have Tumbleweed for that, but even then packages should be declared tested and stable before they are pushed to Tumbleweed.
I think Greg can speak for himself, and I'm sure he has his reasons. Whatever he decides is nice. Also my congratulations to Tumbleweed which is probably the most visible brand under the openSUSE umbrella outside the openSUSE inner circles. Regarding Chromium, I think a few people can probably help Raymond improving the package, go for it. This is really a package which would be nice to keep and have around :) Like I said before, I would be crazy enough to support it for default browser. NM
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