On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:07 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: [SNIP] > The issue is that no one has time to take ownership of these packages. The > whole premise around Fedora's package model for the last 15 years is that the > number of packagers and the number of packages linearly grew. You might end > up having more packages, but there was always a stream of new packagers who > could help take up some of the load and help out. The problem is that the > number of needed packages has grown exponentially, and the number of > interested packagers has either staid linear or decreased.
I agree and this is why I'd like to see a focus in Fedora's package tooling on lowering the barrier to entry for new packagers (something pkgdb did well, I thought) rather than focus on advanced features for experienced packagers (where I think modularity applies). _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
