Matt Keenan wrote:
> I'm chiming in a little late  in this one, apologies.
>
> Are these classifications for defects.opensolaris.org ?
> or
> bugster ?
> or
> something else ?

Something else. IPS Packaging classifications.

>
> If they are for d.o.o. I know we discussed this last week with Leo
> and Erwann has an action to put together a list of categories that we 
> would
> like to see created for the desktop stack.
>
> If this is nothing to do with d.o.o. then ignore me :)

Consider yourself ignored. :-)


To save me typing another email...

Frank,

What do you think of Brian's three new sub-categories?

> Brian Cameron wrote:
>> Rich/Frank:
>>
>>> I'm just a humble packaging minion. Can you (or somebody else who
>>> understands all of this), spell out exactly what you'd liked changed 
>>> here?
>>> Otherwise we are going to spend a lot more time just shuffling the
>>> classifications around, each time a new person with individual 
>>> preferences,
>>> looks at the existing set of classifications.
>>>
>>> I fully understand that the current list  of categories / 
>>> sub-categories
>>> might not be perfect. If new ones should be added, then you need to
>>> let Frank know. I've added him to the cc: list.
>>
>> Based on our discussions so far, it seems that we have identified 3 new
>> categories/subcategories that would be useful to add.
>>
>> 1) System->Multimedia Libraries
>>
>>     There are a lot of libraries to support graphics (GIF, TIF, JPEG, 
>> RSVG),
>>     video (theora), and audio (musicbrainz, ogg/vorbis, flac, speex,
>>     libcanberra).  It would be nice to put these into a single 
>> subcategory
>>     and not clutter up System->Libraries with all of these.
>>
>> 2) Desktop->Theming
>>
>>     A place to put pacakges which do not contain any code, but simply 
>> contain
>>     skins, themes, etc.
>>
>> 3) Desktop->Core
>>
>>     A category to place packages which make up the desktop itself.  
>> Things
>>     like the panel, default applets.  Perhaps this would be a better 
>> category
>>     for gnome-session, and we could get rid of Desktop->Session and 
>> instead
>>     use a slightly broader category for foundational desktop modules.
>>
>> Just my thoughts,
>>
>> Brian
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