2015-01-29 13:06 GMT+01:00 Symbianflo <[email protected]>: > 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 maintena nce 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 make one look less stupid by no longer shipping severely outdated software 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 >> fo r 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 ea sier 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 > > 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? > Uh, this post had nothing to do with any merge of main and contrib repos..
-- Regards, Per Øyvind
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