On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:00, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 08 März 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
> > > How many openSUSE users you think might require it? I'd go for 5
> > > to 10. We're currently trying to get such packages out of the
> > > product everyone has to download and put them in opensuse
> > > buildservice repositories. And if you haven't yet, I suggest you
> > > get an account to upload the package.
> >
> > Do you really think there are only 5 or 10 programmers using
> > openSUSE?
>
> Hmm, you want to tell me every programmer needs cvsgraph? I wonder
> how I managed to program so far without it.

I don't know. Give it a try.

CVS and Subversion are the most widely used open-source version 
control / source code management systems and both are included in 
openSUSE. Many users of one or both of these also use ViewVC or 
ViewCVS. This is also included. There's one missing piece: cvsgraph 
(optional support for which is built into ViewVC). I believe there's a 
large number of people who would like to have the additional 
functionality provided by it and that the complete set of related 
packages should be included.

But what are the criteria for inclusion? What percent of the users must 
use a package to get it included?

If you start with this offhand "I don't need it and don't see why more 
than a handful of users would" justification for excluding packages 
(explicitly requested packages, no less), then where does it end? With 
an operating system release with no more application software than MS 
Windows? Of course not, but I'd strongly prefer continuing in the other 
direction--"all comers welcome."


RRS
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