On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> wrote:
On 10 November 2015 at 18:33, PGNet Dev <pgnet.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
And, what's "improper" about the maintenance of packages currently in the devel & non-home repos?
Devel projects & all non-home repos are not tested. Our distributions are.
Devel proejcts & all non-home repos do not have to follow our packaging policies and quality standards. Our distributions do
Devel projects (and the majority of non-home repos) exist for a primary purpose of *developing* packages *before* their inclusion into Tumbleweed
By definition that means Devel projects and non-home repos are going to be *BROKEN* at some point
Because that is precisely the place where our developers have SO they can break stuff before it hits one of our distributions
In fact, if those projects are NOT breaking from time to time, then I argue that the maintainers are doing something wrong
Yes, I know people like to see those projects as shortcuts to the latest version of software
Yes, I know people are going to use the packages in those projects regardless of what I say
Yes, I know there are some Projects which do a very good job of very carefully being 'Stable' sources of addition packages for our users
But there is no way in heck I'm going to loose sleep about the fact that Leap 42.1 doesn't have those repos enabled yet when the answer is simple
If people want those packages in the release of openSUSE Leap 42.1, they should have submitted them to the release of openSUSE Leap 42.1
And the same will be true for 42.2..if people want those packages in our next release next year, get them in Tumbleweed now, and make sure they get into Leap 42.2 next year.
Richard, The impression I got about Leap was the support matrix was to involve a longer time commitment to support any submitted packages so I *assume* there are less packages in Leap than in openSUSE 13.2. If so, there is a greater need for users to rely on devel projects with Leap than ever before. (Personally I'm sticking to 13.2 for my production systems for at least a few months to let some of the dust settle.) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org