On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:10:30PM +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
So from my POW, we have those possibilities: 1.) use the Contrib as one of devel projects for Factory
No.
Agreed.
2.) drop Contrib and move all packages to appropiate devel project and Factory
This can be done, but I guess we do not want everything in Factory.
Agreed.
3.) redefine a Contrib as a respository with less strict maintenance rules (eg. the "famous" version upgrades), because even if the Factory will be opened for community, every package must be maintained for cca 2 years (that means, three openSUSE releases + Factory). And community is not really interested on it.
I would say we still need a "Other" repository for the stuff that won't get into Factory and Contrib is still well suited for it.
I think that Contrib with version upgrades is a way to go. There were some people that wanted to help with Contrib, but dropped when they realized that no version upgrades were allowed there.
I have the same opinion - make Contrib a repository with less strict rules than Factory has. If we decide to go this way, I see two 'subpossibilities' : 3a) freeze/branch Contrib when new openSUSE release is out (i.e. openSUSE:11.1:Contrib), but allow version upgrades if there's a bug or 3b) do not branch Contrib at all, but build it for older openSUSE versions (like we are now building for 11.1). What do you think? -- Best regards / s pozdravem Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: puzel@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 964 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-contrib+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-contrib+help@opensuse.org