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Dan Čermák píše v Pá 20. 11. 2020 v 10:21 +0100:
I am against such a measure, as this is very much subjective and will result in one of the following: a) the devel project maintainer wants to encourage collaboration, so nothing really changes for them, except that they now have to read business reasons as well (and the submitter has to come up with one).
If there is one argument I would like to finish next year (yes, that's how little hope in humanity I have) that this is this one. There is no such an easy packaging, which never changes. Yes, of course, we should not throw artificial obstacles in packagers way, but yes, if you want to contribute to large public distro, you have to be literate. And instead of inane abuse I now read on Factory about “News in openSUSE Packaging” I would expect some recognition of this fact. Goal of the Linux distribution is not only to be as large as possible, but also to keep high quality of its packages. If we throw quality of packages to anonymous (and not permanent) volunteer contributors, quality will suffer quickly. Ehm, just saw on Twitter https://twitter.com/sysrich/status/1330554305275957248
Imho the best solution would be: if you submit a package, then you have to maintain it.
Except: a) That is not how OpenSUSE (especially around Python) has been working … we all help to maintain each others packages, or even better ownership of packages is not much considered. You are suggesting quite radical change, a way more radical than what I am suggesting. And I am strongly against it (experienced this organization in two distros and it was always mess which had to be worked around all the time). b) We don’t have enough tools to monitor quality of packaging by others. I am afraid that the reaction of users on broken packages is not filing bugs on bugzilla (nobody files bugs there), but either switching to Ubuntu or using pip directly, which means even less testing for our packages. BTW, attached is the screenshot of my current queue of the review of submission requests, and it is pretty normal. Everybody throws new packages to d:l:p and not many actually maintain them. Best, Matěj -- https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mcepl@ceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8 See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs. -- Dave Barry