-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sierk Bornemann wrote:
Hi!
Hallo Sierk
I am primary a web developer, and my interest is very high, that the popular SUSE Linux offers tools to make a (web-)developer's life easier. Fedora has an eye on developers, also Debian. Why not also SUSE? Making the openSUSE platform interesting for developers more than ever before?
Sure. ...
http://sierkbornemann.de/pub/tools/w3c-markup-validator/. As it happened with my tidy and mod_tidy packages, I hope, my w3c validator packages will be copyied to one of SUSEs FTP-Servers and offered from there to the public (here again, I want to keep the traffic to my server in a reasonable limit, that's because I hope, that somebody of Novell/SuSE gives them a place on a public SuSE FTP server).
I don't see that happening as of now. Adrian is working on a new concept (aka "build servers") where such things will be possible, but it's only due end of Q1 2006. Until then, we don't have all that much influence on what is included and/or updated in SUSE Linux. Besides that fact, it wouldn't help that much anyway, as once a SUSE Linux release is out, it's feature-frozen. There won't be any feature updates, only critical bug- and security-fixes. What you are looking for are short release cycles for your packages. Hence, the best option would be to provide package repositories to the community. For the sake of joining forces, making it easier for the end-user and if you don't want to spoil your bandwidth with downloads of your packages, you should join the Packman team and maintain your packages over there. Packman would provide you with the whole infrastructure (you merely need to upload your packages onto the Packman server, no other bandwidth would be used). If you want to join, just send an e-mail on packman@links2linux.de and you'll get further information over there.
Concerning the W3C Markup Validator, I went on optimizing it for local use (the W3C developers themselves have an eye on it and made a lot of adjustments). It's easy to install and configurate. Hints for
Great :)
improvements are welcome (this belongs to the validator as to tidy and to mod_tidy). For the near future, I aim SUSE Linux packages of the W3C Validator to be also mentioned on http://validator.w3.org/source/ (besides Fedora and Debian packages). I have strong encouragement from the Validator Dev team in continuing so. and I still hope, Novell/SUSE
Excellent.
is able to give me more official assistance (minimum: updating more frequently the packages taken from me).
They can only be updated when SUSE Linux releases are made. Hint: contact the package maintainer @SUSE directly by mail (look at the changelog of the tidy/... RPM included in SUSE Linux 10.0 ("rpm -q --changelog tidy | head -20" and take the topmost) or file a feature request on the openSUSE bugzilla. Still, those packages would only be updated every 6 months. Much better option: community repository (your own, Packman, ...)
So, have a look into my packages, try them out. Any help for improvements and advocacy is welcome.
Send in the spec files ;)
cheers
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