Hi all,
Here's a reminder that for openSUSE Leap, unlike previous openSUSE versions, package maintainers need to actively submit their packages to the distribution if they want to be sure their package ends up in the final release.
This is because openSUSE Leap can include packages from one of 3 origins
1) SUSE:SLE-12:GA and SUSE:SLE-12:Update - aka The SLE Sources 2) openSUSE:Factory 3) Leap Devel Projects - new devel projects for the purpose of containing stable versions of packages for Leap which are newer than SLE but older than Tumbleweed (Currently non of these exist, but they are expected to be needed in the future)
As a Package Maintainer for openSUSE it is *your responsibility* to decide which version of your software makes sense for the stable distribution we are creating with leap.
More thoughts on this can be found on the opensuse-factory thread on the topic: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-07/msg00796.html
The steps required are luckily quite simple
Step 1) Decide which of the 3 locations above you want to pull your existing package from.
Step 2) Submit it to the openSUSE:42 Project (Full Documentation Here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:How_to_contribute_to_Leap )
Step 3) That should be it, make sure the package gets in and do the usual awesome job you do maintaining the package - Thank you ;)
Please can everyone also do their best to spread the word around to anyone and everyone who maintains packages in openSUSE who may not be reading this list.
Many Thanks,
Richard