Hi, Am 26.06.2016 um 11:30 schrieb Eric Schirra:
Am Sa 25 Jun 2016, 22:51:41 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
On Saturday 2016-06-25 20:59, Eric Schirra wrote:
Why was devel:languages:python/openSUSE_13.1 removed?
I think openSUSE_13.1 is Evergreen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3whk4E_IA 24:45-25:10 Of course you should watch the whole thing to get the larger context.
Okay i have seen it. And when i understand right, i can not agree with it. Richard speek from future stable package and i can he understand, but this is not the point of view for me. And not my suit.
I live in the present and with distris 13.1, 13.2 and leap 42.1 When i need packages or create one i need it for those versions. Tumbleweed and especially Factory is for me an 'by-product'.
So Evergreen is 13.1. When i will use 13.1 i need package for 13.1. And when i can not build these package, because other (for me now python) is missing, i can not use evergreen. So there is no need for evergreen. Why it gives evergreen then?
The Evergreen team is not responsible for OBS repositories. We had this so many times now that packagers just ignore Evergreen completely. Somehow I even have the feeling they want to boycot it while I do not really believe it. Anyway while Alberto's talk from this years conference again showed that our users like to have stable stuff and keep also running older distributions for quite some time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40emCNzs6so) I have the feeling that our contributors do not share this preference and they run away from older things as soon as possible while there is many times not even a technical reason. Take my mozilla repository as an example: I was asked why I still have repositories in there which are really out of maintenance and not Evergreen. My answer was and is: "Because I can and it doesn't put an additional burden on me. At some point it'll become a technical nightmare. In that case I will have to drop them eventually." Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org