Hi, On Monday, September 05, 2005 at 11:33:56, Andreas Simon wrote:
On Monday 05 September 2005 08:32, Andreas Girardet wrote:
A few days ago a discussion on the opensuse-optimize mailinglist was started about the future of our distro in regard to its building blocks, the packages. A suggestion was made to extend this discussion to this list and invite anyone on here to add their ideas.
Two points I can't find on the wiki page.
Bug-tracking system. I think it's important to have a bug-tracking system up for contributed packages. Probably we don't need to discuss the advantages of that.
No need for yet another bugtracking system. We already have a bugzilla up dont we? :)
From the wiki: "Packages should be allowed from any source regardless of the packagers seniority or trust level." Are you serious? People should install random software on their systems? Trust is important here. If the first packages arrive which break user systems, delete their data, install backdoors, etc. openSUSE will suffer from it. I too think everyone should be able to contribute packages, including people who have not yet much practise with rpm (I for example am just learning how to do them), etc. But those packages should be reviewed by more expierinces and trusted people before they land in the repositores.
You are showing the classical reflex when it comes to this topic ;) You immediately invent a "inner circle" of people that decide whats good and whats bad. I understand that, that is my first reflex too. But thinking about it, that approach has a lot of disadvantages. Its a bottleneck for * packages - A large sum of packages to handle by a small sum of people * people - For every inner circle there exists an outer circle. You would need to organize the "transfer" of people from the outer circle to the inner circle. That implys some other inner circle that decides these things. * changes - If youre in the outer circle you have to rely on the inner circle to "implement" the change you want. Or you need to go trough the "people" bottleneck to get into the inner circle yourself. You always end at some bottleneck if you want to contribute. Thats not very open i think. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, Subsystems "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire)