Hello together. I think it's a good idea to create a mailinglist for packaging specific topics. This list here is IMO not the right place for discussions on such topics, because a lot of people have to read (or at least they have to filter those mails into /dev/null) them and this will waste a huge amount of time, which could be spend more useful topics.
The target of this list would be to coordinate the work of packagers of the different distributions to reach more and (hopefully) identical quality and to provide packages just in time with new releases/milestones. Also to have a single point of contact for upcoming packagers and maybe to provide similar sets of packages (for example same naming convention, same versions and so on). Here a few examples I want to discuss in more detail. * what is stability in the point of view of a distributor/packager (the discussion triggered yesterday on the OSDEM on the FOSDEM 2012). I think it's necessary that we have the same point of view to not have a very different "stability" on different distributions * is it possible (and how) to share efforts between the packaging for different distributions (for example I'm pretty sure that it's possible to create nearly the same SPECs for OpenSUSE/SLES and FedoraCore/RHEL) * is it useful to host all package definitions (SPECs and so on) at a central place (for example at Github in a project openstack/packages or somethink like that) so that everybody can commit to those definitions in an easy and defined way (using gerrit for reviews..)? * should there only be one package set for one distribution or is it better to have different package sets? (for example at the moment SUSE and we (B1) are providing packages on the OpenSUSE Build Service) Bye, Christian. -- Christian Berendt Linux / Unix Consultant & Developer Mail: bere...@b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp