+1 from me but please add write acces to software repo to openmandriva.
2015-01-29 10:40 GMT+01:00 Per Øyvind Karlsen <[email protected]>: > Ho! > > As I've written earlier, there's still several repos that's far more up to > date and well maintained in software/ that's yet to merge the repos under > omv_software/ and some final adaptation of required in order to update the > packages in cooker with. > > DrakX, and pretty much all of the other distro specific tools has been > actively maintained and developed, while staying in sync with Mageia > changes tracked from Mageia repos. > So this means a lot of new developments, fixes, improvements and what not, > where for instance all of the software has been ported to Gtk3 long time > ago, while the versions of these tools in cooker still being based on > ancient versions that's nased on whatever was in the repos when repos got > forked to omv_software/ and I in response made my repos nearly two years > ago. > So these toools in cooker hasn't received more than just the minimal > amount of maintenance required since, missing out on all changes from the > repos that's been actively maintained / & developed since, being in bad > need of updates to. > > As there's a feature freeze in process, I'm wondering whether people would > want me to update these tools, or leave them as-is? > > I'd think that people would find it acceptable to get these tools updated > to more recent code, with all the benefits that comes along, while it would > make one look less stupid by no longer shipping severely outdated software > that ie. Mageia has provided their newest developments of through their > releases. > > As I actively work on these tools and have good overview and insight on > the code and what not related to, I also think that it would make it far > more easy to deal with any bugs, feature requests etc. that I then could > deal with (I'm not willing to debug and work on obsolete and ancient code > for the tools that I have recent versions available for and willing to hack > on). > So in conclusion, the tools should receive more attention and therefore > any potential bugs with far quicker and easilier fixed than those based on > code in omv_software/ repos, making the update to in not just a matter of > new functionality and what not, but also about better maintained and less > issues as they'll receive more attention with any issues much more > efficiently being fixed properly. > > Update of DrakX and friends will also be required in order to use my very > easy and *very* fas iso generator for classical installer images, which > I'll be packaging and make more easily available with some documentation on > usage following. > I also plan on looking at draklive and having it brought up to more recent > version, merging changes from Mageia, while also make it compatible with > and using the same code as the DrakX installer does,. This should make it > easier to develop and maintain, especially for myself which then would be > willing to work on and enhance it. > > For any potential breakages and bugs caused by this task, I'm perfectly > able to deal with them, figuring and fixing them very quickly as they get > reported since I know and understand the coddebase quite well, not to > mention that for bugs not being exclusive to my branch only, but also found > in Mageia, I'll be easily able to just pick up their efforts right away, > which should improve the quality further quite a lot more (especially > considering that they've been doing a better job at actively developing all > of these tools, with more people working on them and their knowledge of > usually being superiour to ours as they have ie. Thierry Vignaud, one of > the main authrs, actively working on them). > > Any thoughts, objectios, questions, approval or anything people might have > on their mind on this? :) > > Unless rejected, I will get around to this task much sooner and get the > job done more efficiently than from what I've done with otther repos so > far, not pushing the task to be performed much more "later" than what I've > said about in the past. > > -- > Regards, > Per Øyvind > > _______________________________________________ > OM-Cooker mailing list > [email protected] > http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org >
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