> -----Original Message----- > From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 4:15 AM > To: Alexander Kanevskiy > Cc: Zhu, Peter J; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meego-packaging] Removing OpenCV > > On 11/28/2010 12:13 PM, Alexander Kanevskiy wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Arjan van de Ven<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 11/28/2010 8:14 AM, Alexander Kanevskiy wrote: > >>> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Arjan van de Ven<[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> On 11/28/2010 6:59 AM, Zhu, Peter J wrote: > >>>>> It’s not used by any verticals or included in any pkg groups. > >>>>> > >>>>> Please let us know if there are objections... > >>>>> > >>>> which bug is there in the package that warrants removing it? > >>>> (I understand that fixing unused packages might be too much work for > >>>> their > >>>> worth... > >>>> but if there's no bugs ........ > >>>> ) > >>> A bit different question: where is MeeGo Architecture Forum decision > >>> about removing some packages ? > >> there is no decision to delete packages like this, and I'm pretty sure > >> there > >> won't be one; > >> I for sure will be against it... esp for packages that have no serious > >> maintenance burden. > > Well, it's not question of who for or against removal. > > > > My point was that all packages that we have in MeeGo should have clear > > owner/maintainer and clear understanding and description where this > > package fits to architecture of MeeGo. So any addition or removal of > > packages should go trough process of FEA# and reviewal of Business > > people and Architects Forum to give a decision either this package > > present or not present in MeeGo. It shouldn't be anarchy of adding or > > removing packages. > > agreed. > I agreed this very much as well. Actually We are in a process of defining ownership for all packages in MeeGo. It's started already.
> I would also like to point out that I consider this a point for adding a > package to an image, > more than having a package in OBS at all. > For the later we should be *much* more liberal in having packages than > we should be for the former! > > Peter: why did you decide to remove this package from OBS ? > > I didn't decide to removed it. I just raised the request and ask for comments if any vertical or any apps would like use it. Definitely we need a process for this. Before that, sending a mail to meego-packaging is not bad. Peter _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
