On Jan 29, 2015, "Per Øyvind Karlsen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>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make one look less stupid by no longer shipping severely outdated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
>
>
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We could merge main and contrib, but plf and non free I guess not, those will
be out of reach ,officially for some Nazi countries...
But main and contrib fusion it could be done, of course the contrib
health/update will affect drastically the health of the future
joined media.
Now the million dollars question do we have manpower for this?
Beside some of you considered contrib as useless, so I guess we can't count on
them...
Now seriously POK , you think is doable?
-- Sent from my Asus transformer pad with K-@ Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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