Hi, On Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at 19:15:43, Víctor Fernández Martínez wrote:
Suse has for so long offered their packages through a FTP, and now it even offers more packages in the repository than in the CDs/DVD. But the problem is the people couldn't contribute RPM packages as in other distros. Let's say, for example, Mandriva. As long as I have seen, it has a contrib repository where you can become a contributor and commit RPM packages. Now that openSUSE has come, I think it would be cool to create a contrib repository where the people could join and maintain their packages. There would still be an officially supported repository like now, but whoever wanted could ask the repository organizers for permission to take a particular package if nobody is responsible for it or if it doesn't exist, and maintain it. That way the contrib repository could contain packages not included in the main repository, so the people would have a lot more packages available for Suse. That would contribute to create a packagers community and having much more packages might improve the market share of Suse.
We have a great concept "in mind" that will takle exactly this "problem". See the Roadmap (http://opensuse.org/index.php/Roadmap) Early 2006 A first version of the openSUSE build server will appear. Everyone will be able to build and provide packages for the openSUSE community. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, Subsystems "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire)