Wonder if doing this would fix bug # 1028>rpmdrake won't open in Cooker?
Anyway seems good idea overall.
Ben Bullard
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On 01/29/2015 03:54 AM, Tomasz Gajc wrote:
+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]
<mailto:[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shipping severely outdated software that ie.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
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