Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #308469, revision 7 Title: Automatically generated list of various private/open repositories Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority - Requester: Important + Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Description: The new build service promises to make available many new packages for openSUSE community members. It also means proliferation of many packaged rpms to varying standards, with risk of dependency problems and breakage in users openSUSE systems, who add unsupported private repositories without understanding the risk. A way forward is needed to help both the private packagers and the community in using any newly available packages where appropriate, and not using them where not appropriate for use. A way forward start (but not the final answer) would be an automatically (on a regular basis) generated list posted on a web page/site, that would list all build service repositories, with a comment/descriptive field that the build service packager is required to fill in. A recommend field could be an indication as to their planned future support for any package (ie "one of package" for private use, or "temporary package for TBD time frame", or "planned for long term support", or "packaged for private testing" ... ) etc ... With this automatically generated/re-generated list in place, openSUSE users could go to the list to help them assess if they should download and install an rpm from a repository, or indeed if they should add the repository to their software package manager's repository list. Discussion: #1: jason ferrer (jetchisel) (2010-04-11 11:39:56) Surely an OpenFate material! #2: Rick Beauchamp (techwiz03) (2010-04-23 19:39:55) reasonable direction to be taken. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308469