On Tuesday 29 July 2008 16:32:14 Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:22:56PM +0000, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Anyway: since openSUSE is sort of "open", I believe there should be some kind of mechanism to allow integration of new packages into the core distro.
The Wishlists in the Wiki, and now openFATE.
Well, technical it can be submitted via submit request (just one bug needs to be fixed for this ;) However, what is needed is IMHO a discussion and policy what the openSUSE distribution should be. a) A relative small distribution with best possible quality, trust and maintenance b) A as large as possible distro with the price of lower quality/trustable and more often changing content. c) something in the middle ;) Whatever you select, you will have a price to pay. But this is IMHO something what should be discussed on -factory or -project. Or even better, someone can come up with a proposal how a package can qualify for the distribution in future. In short it needs: * Source needs to be trusted (when is this the case ?) * To be packaged by a trusted packager (when is a packager trusted enough for the distro ?) * A significant interest by the users (How to messure this ? 2 loud people vs. 1000 quite people ?) * Who is able and willing to deliver maintenance updates ? (Who qualifies to deliver updates for two years ? Who can be the fallback ?) In short, technically everything is there to maintain more packages. But do we want more packages ? Do we want to drop existing packages, because they are not important enough (anymore) ? These are the question where we should try to find an answer to IMHO. And please keep in mind that it is not a big problem, if a package can not becomes part of the main distro for what ever reason. It is actually a good thing, if we do not depend on corner case packages with the release and if we can improve the quality and trust of the core distribution. And users become aware by adding another less trusted repository that this software is less trustable. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian@suse.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org