This sounds great. I like contrib-extra idea for occasional contributors.
Bye. On Lunes, 20 de Septiembre de 2010 13:47:10 Tux99 escribió: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > So, although I would wish only one repository (makes it much easier > > for mirror maintainers and users) I doubt that it will come to that. > > Why so pessimistic? I don't see why it shouldn't be possible. > > I think there should be an new repo called for example contrib-extra, to > which occasional contributors can contribute. > > I can see it working the following way: > > The contributor submits the SRPM (source RPM) of the package he/she has > made, then a Mageia packager looks at the spec file and the > other included files to see that it all looks ok, then builds it on the > official build servers (signed with a Mageia key) and then places it > into the contrib-extra repository. > > The difference between the contrib-extra repo and the more official > repos should be that the rules for inclusion should be less strict (no > commitment from the contributor to keep the package updated, no official > debugging and support from Mageia, acceptance of less free licenses, no > need to stringently follow former Mandriva packaging rules, etc). > > > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss
