Sorry, I couldn't read all the posts :-) so I may duplicate
some advices.
However I thing the discussion is taking a wrong direction.
We, here, are talking of driving a _distribution_, not a
test site for individual packages.
There are already very nice repositories for developpers,
not to mention Sourceforge. Why duplicate them?
Package tests is the work of _package developpers_, not
_distribution developpers_.
Here, we need just see if the package inserts itself well in
the actual SUSE 10.0. Only bug resorting on this insertion
are of our goal, not bug about the package itself. It's a
all work in itself :-)
IMHO the first goal we should acheive rapidly is a
categorisation of the packages and a (?) vote system to know
what package must be included among all of the same kind.
For example, what cd writer package do we need? what editor?
of course it can be a "s" at any one (we can choose more
than one).
For most of these packages we then can, as it's already
done, use the actual source.
then, we can setup a "new package proposal commission". That
is a group that goal is to make a survey on the new apps
available elsewhere. _not_ to host them and debug them, but
to look at the already done work and see if it may be
included (list of dependencies...).
If a package seems promising, a member of the commission
could be in charge to join the package dev team in the goal
of making a SUSE 10.0 rpm. Usualy it's a volunteer who makes
suse rpm for not distro included product (was the case, I
remember for lyx or audacity at the beginning).
And then the new package go to the category folders.
Of course we can have packages sorted also in "included",
"optional", that is tested, available on the ftp, but not on
the CD's, "untested" (that is proposed by voluteers, but not
yet tested by the opensuse team).
should also be a category "rejected", for example for
impossible to meet dependencies.
sincerely
jdd
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