Hi, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:40:29 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Takashi Iwai wrote:
But, the questions regarding the package maintainer is still quite open. One typical example is M17N repo. Since Mike left, we have no people working on this area. So I eventually volunteered to fix / improve the issues. But, if really no one takes care any more? Then obviously we can't have M17N stuff on openSUSE anymore.
Do you want it to be so?
Its not a question of me or anyone else wanting anything. The question is do we have resources to reasonably[1] maintain M17N stuff in openSUSE. If you, as someone involved in the devel project, say that we don't have resources then we simply _can't_. Even if you, me and everyone else want it.
If not, what is your proposal to avoid it?
My proposal was, from the beginning, that we break the 1:1 package:maintainer relation and people start to work in groups and share the load of responsibility and work. This way can carry more with less. I'm still hopeful that this will happen in the future.
The situation of maintenance isn't so trivial right now in many areas; even though many packages are even on SLES. This is my honest and serious concern... Everybody is well aware of this situation.
Yes, just like a world hunger or CO2 increase :) What people want to hear is rather how to stop it.
See above :) [1] Please note that reasonably can mean letting it bitrot until we find the time. What coolo calls "a certain staleness". -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org