On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:20:55PM -0400, Austin Acton wrote: > Not the case. > Volunteered RPMS will be freely available on regular MDK mirrors, > provided they are GPL or similar. The only RPMS available only to club > members will be those that are free, but not open source. > New SRPMS will go directly into cooker if they are reliable. > You should contribute this way, because it helps the distro directly.
So then what does this have to do with the club and what's different from contribs? To be honest I'm jaded about contribs anyway. The policy of how to contribute is unclear (at one point in time you were supposed to email lenny for a @linux-mandrake.com address, I've done that several times and just get ignored) and 99% of the time any emails about contrib business is just flat out ignored. Basically my attitude comes down to this. I'm sick of getting the run around about how to contribute to Mandrake. And I've found my time is far better spent building packages for myself and just posting them myself. If and when a reasonable system gets built for contributing that doesn't mean I'm wasting my time. I'll be willing to contribute to it. Having just read through the FAQ about the club RPM thing. I'm not really convinced that this is going to change anything. The club SRPMS are going to have to be tied to cooker stuff. Which inevitably is going to lead to the same issue as contrib has now, limited Mandrake staff time to deal with the influx of SRPMS. This limited time is in my opinion the root cause of the issues that I see with contrib now. So my question is. Rather than trying to come up with some new "system" for contrib packages (which is what I see the club rpm thing as) why don't we first figure out what's broken with what we've got? -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
