On Thursday 12 July 2007 07:24:43 wrote Stephan Hermann:
> Moin moin,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.07.2007, 19:12 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
> > Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 11. July 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > >>> what's the rationale behing the sale ?
> > >
> > > I can't maintain the listed packages anymore, if anyone else wants to
> > > pick them up, he should speak up now.
> > >
> > >>> /me does not get it :?
> > >>
> > >> Internal redistribution of pakcage maintainer ship, but since our
> > >> internal packagers list is gone, on the external list.
> > >
> > > Its not really internal anymore, nowadays community members can
> > > maintain packages :)
> >
> > I don't agree. In practice it's still too much hassle to "maintain"
> > packages from the outside. I mean it's true that anyone can maintain
> > packages in the buildservice or elsewhere but the way back into the
> > openSUSE distribution is not defined sufficiently IMHO.
>
> What is the prefered way to apply for package maintainer ship for the
> opensuse distribution (core). Coming from Ubuntu, there is a way to
> enter the project without any hassles. So, if it's nowadays the way to
> maintain an official package by community members, what is the way to
> apply for "official opensuse community upload rights"?
>
> Regarding my time schedule, I could take some, or push new packages into
> it...
unfortunatly we do not have reached this step yet. What we need to do before
is
* Building the distro within the build service to make it reachable and
transparent for everybody.
we have reached the first step where all current sources are inside
of the openSUSE:Factory project and they do build against official
rpms to show the status.
This does show us that we have to
* cleanup factory <> factory-extra dependencies, currently there
are some packages in factory which needs factory-extra packages for
buidling.
* solve the java issues, this means either move away packages which
needs binary only java elements or try to build them with a free
java engine (or adapt our policies).
* Support baselibs build (the -32bit packages)
* offer merge request and handle them. At least some of the packages do
need a full review (we do so also internally, only very few people
can commit directly). This is also needed to avoid endless building
projects without to finish ever.
We do work atm a bit on the java issues, but our main focus for the next 4
weeks are the real end-user interface for easy downloading and installing
software.
So, right now, a package can get prepared from anyone in the build service, in
best case on top of the openSUSE:Factory package, but we still need an
internal one to submit it.
bye
adrian
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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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