On 8/24/10 5:28 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Tuesday 2010-08-24 15:10, Martin Schlander wrote:
Thanks Andreas. You're ahead of me. Anything like that for openSUSE?
I was also thinking of a piece of research I read last week
Speaking of these things, it would be interesting if we had stats of how many packages in factory are maintained by volunteers and employees respectively. And even more interesting if we had stats from 11.2 or older to compare with.
Factory is only maintained by Novell AFAICS. So you would have to follow the develproject "symlinks" to actually get an accurate picture.
I have to disagree there. I have one package in Factory since before 11.3 was released and as time allows, there will be more. Now in this case I am also upstream, but that is not solely a determining criteria, nor will this prevent me or others from maintaining packages where we are not upstream. The limiting factor for having more non-Novell folks working on Factory is certainly not infrastructure. OBS makes is easy, nor from what I see is any limit placed by Novell. Simply it takes time for folks to learn the process for creating the entire distro, as well as the Novell folks having the time to mentor people as well. There are docs and the wiki, but there are still areas where this could be better documented or clearer. This is a learn as you go period for everyone. The Novell folks need time to learn what community packagers are capable of doing well, as well as time for the community packagers to understand the entire process. The openess of collaboration is one "marketing feature" of openSUSE which needs to be part of the "value proposition" when we market the project, as well as the distro. Just my 0.02 Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org