On Mar 29, 2010 9:07am, Marius Vollmer <marius.voll...@nokia.com> wrote:
It might be mostly bullshit, but not entirely. If we teach people that it is normal to go hunting for alternative repositories, we substantially increase the risk that they run into unsafe and evil ones.
I do not think anyone is "teaching people to go hunting for alternative repositories" here. What I do see though is that the Extras admission/promotions processes have become so bothersome to developers that they border on hostile.
In relation to that, I would like to remind everyone that the life does not stop at Extras: it is *ok* to create and maintain your own repositories. If Extras management would like as many developers as possible to use Extras, they have to make actual changes to the admission/promotion process rather than continue repeating the "everything but Extras is evil" mantra. These changes have been discussed multiple times over the last 6 months, so it is somewhat sad to see that none of them are implemented.
One of the first things that you learn when you grow up is that it is not a good idea to put everything into your mouth that you find on the ground.
Another thing that you learn when you grow up is that grownups generally prefer making their own decisions rather than allowing their parents to continue making decisions for them.
Thus, we should market the advantages of a centralized repository to our users (down to making adding new repositories with .install files more scary, but still fair), and work to reduce repository fragmentation by seeking out the 'rogue' ones and copying their packages into ours, if legal, and subject to the same QA as other packages, of course.
So, but I am afraid this is not exactly the first thing you should do. :)
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