* Stephan Kulow
Hi,
I have a new topic ;)
As the bootstraping of openSUSE:42 is almost done (already looking forward to do the same from scratch with openSUSE:$NEWNAME) I wonder how we go from there.
I would like simple (to enforce) submission rules. So submission from openSUSE:Factory or SUSE:SLE-12:Update only (:Update overshadows SLE-12:GA, so it has all sle12 packages). Then we would test compile the submissions in a staging project light (in IRC we did some brain storming and Staging:adi:<NR> was the best suggestion so far) to see if the submitted packages compile in 42 and accept.
For practicability I would accept everyone submitting packages he cares about to be in 42 and feels able to do security updates for - but I would suggest the TW maintainers of the packages are informed and I'll decline every submission I consider abuse.
Why should package submission be optional, why not take everything that is in Factory and not yet in:42? It has always been the deal that by submitting a package to Factory one implicitly agrees to maitain it for supported releases as well. In the past releases also were maintained for longer, after that the Evergreen approach also worked well for 11.4. Why should that be any different now? Having both less drivers and less packages just makes it less and less attractive.
And remember 42 is maintained for longer, so if the software is already out of maintenance now, better don't submit it.
How's that any different from the situation we had with Evergreen? And sooner or later you'll run into the issue anyway that you can't update to the latest KDE, GNOME, Xfce because systemd, upower, GTK, Qt etc. are too old. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org