On 18 March 2017 at 01:14, Jan Engelhardt
On Friday 2017-03-17 19:55, Tomas Chvatal wrote:
Jan Engelhardt píše v Pá 17. 03. 2017 v 11:22 +0100:
The mass submits of Haskell into openSUSE:Factory are worrying.
I have to say I am bit confused. Your post is rant, request for help, or something else entirely?
Just an impetus for discussion and solicitation of others' opinions.
Or I just wanted to speak whatever was on the my mind.
Hi Jan, Thanks for all your help reviewing, and for bringing this up, it's certainly spawning a spirited discussion. Did you discuss the concerns you have directly with the submitters first? If not, might I suggest you do so in the future. Without such private consultation first, your creation of this thread can be seen as "public shaming" and questioning the value of contributors by a senior member of the community in the review team; That probably isn't how you want yourself or the review team to be seen, I can certainly imagine that will make recruiting new blood to the review team harder.
Haskell LTS is not the first big stack to enter openSUSE. There is perl, and there is texlive, and their packaging and submission style has... some different characteristics that, judging from the echo in the room, seems to have appealed more to the release team.
Are these guidelines regarding submission style written down somewhere? In this thread I can see your objections but I am somewhat vague on what your proposed suggestions would be? Would you prefer a single large ghc-platform package instead of hundreds of smaller packages? Would you prefer that the submissions were stagged somehow? I can certainly see how several hundred packages in one go is obscenely troublesome for the review and release process, but I think as a member of the review team you're in a position to suggest improvements, not just question the style and packaging of contributions. Regards, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org