On 2/3/11 3:57 PM, "Arjan van de Ven" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2/3/2011 3:51 PM, David Greaves wrote:
>> On 03/02/11 22:04, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> On 2/3/2011 1:02 PM, Shane Bryan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can't see how this is of any concern or issue to the Core OBS team,
>>>> or why it's package contents policy must be imposed on the community
>>>> OBS.
>>>>
>>> I'm not trying to impose anything
>>>
>>> I was trying to point out that the very few things that are going to be
>>> ejected is really the bottom of the barrel, obsoleted stuff replaced by
>>> newer code.
>>> There is no plan to eject things that really have a use (like your tftp
>>> example).
>>
>> Agreed, so as tftp isn't in Trunk anyway; however now the community
>> OBS is beginning to take shape it may be worth looking at the packages
>> that *are* in Trunk (and elsewhere on the core OBS) and asking what
>> value they have to MeeGo's 'real' customers.
>>
>> And by that I mean the vendors who are going to be building product on
>> top of MeeGo.
>>
>> eg, whilst I swear by it:
>>   http://build.meego.com/package/show?package=org-mode&project=Trunk
>> heck, it's not even mobile-org-mode :)

And there's no reason it should be mobile-org-mode.  We have 5 verticals.
Just because it's in Trunk doesn't mean it's for mobile.  We don't have
mobile-gcc.

>> So if there are things like this that are not really 'Core' material
>> and yet take build and QA/validation time in the core then it may make
>> sense to clearly differentiate them by moving them out.
>
>the target is not just people making devices, but for sure also
>developers developing on and for meego!
>
>and my personal opinion is that, even though the community OBS is a
>great effort, we must be on a path to just do all of that in the "main"
>OBS over time.

Completely agree with this.

Ryan


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