Even if I'm not sure this discussion should happen right now, before we have a clear vision about how factory & development process will occur.... On Friday 20 December 2013 15.01:11 Antoine Saroufim wrote:
We should point community packagers to a certain repo so the users can use that repo instead of having to add several home projects.
Well if packager keep their packages in their home repository, without one day thinks about pushing them to the corresponding repository that normal end-user could use. I don't see how it could become better. Karmaid it or not I'm still totally blinded by how this could help. The main concern & clean-up we can do (but then again who is the we?) could be the following: Decide and have clear statement about the status about some important repositories in the end-user point of view Edu, Games, Each desktop, Devel:Languages, etc and some server stuff to be safe repository to add. On those repository, once we got several maintainers on them, we could have a politics of getting stable stuff in. They serve as development home for factory submission. When packager has stuff to develop (new version etc) this could happen in their home, and or specialized "devel" repository Now you will never never strict adherence from end-users. You can't imagine how creative they can be in f**cking their system. How few reflexion they do, when installing software. Do we want to have a dummy place à la Google Play store? Come on, it's a pity to find something there. Did you really think that a five start (highest rated by end-user) text editor which want full access on your whole system function and data is really trust-able ? Then just revive the Contrib repository. Those of us who was using it years ago, know how good it has disappear. Did a number of end-users need an easier way to get latest great stuff available? Then tumbleweed could (should) be the target. Helping tumbleweed to pick the most requested / needed software integrated in it, and you win! No hard work to reorganize (now) the repository, cause who will do that work? and you safely offer all what end-users are looking for. What is missing the most is educational material for end users. This is only valid until we got a ring distribution :-) -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org