Re: [opensuse-packaging] RFC: Moving openSUSE Packaging Guidelines out of the wiki

On Fri, 2020-07-17 at 14:11 +0200, Stasiek Michalski wrote:

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 14:05, Ludwig Nussel wrote:

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Neal Gompa wrote:

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[...] This brings up something that has been tickling at the back of my mind since it was discussed last year at SUSECON and oSC. We should strongly consider migrating our packaging guidelines *out* of the openSUSE Wiki into a documentation site system. Wikis are terrible for navigation, discovery, SEO, and content control.

Fedora migrated their guidelines out of the wiki last year[1][2] and Debian has always had theirs not in a wiki[3]. When Fedora moved, they were able to simplify their change control process to just "make a pull request and the packaging committee would review it". I'm not

Yeah, that idea also came to my mind too when I wrote those mails but then one thing at a time.. The challenge here might be that we do not really have a committee, even though some page lists some names. We do have a review team that needs to know the policies though. So would have to figure out who would be in charge of reviewing pull requests and how to sync with the review team in case both groups are distinct.

Since our current packaging documentation is a fork from Fedora guidelines from 2011, maybe we could collaborate with them on common documentation, which highlights differences when needed.

LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world Good idea, but I'd be still in favor of using SUSE's documentation build approach. Who'll talk to Fedora?