On Tuesday 10 August 2010 16:35:37 todd rme wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Stephan Kleine <bitdealer@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
you either receive this email because you are listed as maintainer for KDE:KDE4:Community or are subscribed to opensuse-kde (and I couldn't be bothered to sort out the emails so my apologies if I'm telling you the obvious).
Point being: KDE:KDE4:Community will get nuked soon and the new place is KDE:Extra
Would it be possible to disable building and publishing of the KDE:KDE4:Community repository, remove it from download.opensuse.org, but leave the buildservice repository in place as an archive? I am not sure this is even doable but I think if, somewhere down the road, someone comes along and decides they want to maintain a particular package, they OBS repo would provide a good starting point, with spec files and patches already set up. This would make it much easier for someone to take over ownership of a package. The packages there would not be updated or maintained in any way, the only changes that would be made would be to remove packages that someone has taken over ownership of or that it is decided should not be in Extra even if someone wanted to take it over. Once the repository is completely empty it can be removed.
OBS is supporting to list and checkout of removed packages. The webui is not really supporting this yet, but you can still access the files via osc. So I would remove the packages now to have a clean state and point people to osc for accessing it (and hope for a better webui soon ;)
If this is feasible, I am not sure what the cost might be. Is there much of a cost to the OBS to have packages that never build, never publish, never change, never do anything? If this is feasible, and there isn't much cost to it, I think it would be a great help to future contributors.
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