Re: [maemo-developers] Proposal for streamline maemo repositories
On 9/14/06, Devesh Kothari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proposal to streamline maemo repos. PLEASE give your feedback and concerns. If anyone can improve or shoot this down, then it is YOU. Proposal: 1. To change the name of the contrib repository name to extras [snip] Impact to developers/contributors/users of contrib - Currently configured repository in /etc/apt/sources.list would have to be changed [snip] Sorry, I think you're too late. You should have considered these issues in advance, and introducing another please change your settings to users just looks a little unprofessional so soon after the EABI change (which we all agree was worthwhile, but the users don't think they see the benefit). I suppose the only redeeming feature would be that there aren't *many* projects yet using contrib. However if you were going to do any such change, make the settings more clear for a user: * make sure the settings match those provided by default by the AM * if free non-free doesn't match the defaults, make it as simple as possible. Why does the Debian distinction need to apply here, given the limited data entry on a Maemo device? Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.bleb.org/ ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: [maemo-developers] Proposal for streamline maemo repositories
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Flegg schreef: On 9/14/06, Devesh Kothari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proposal to streamline maemo repos. PLEASE give your feedback and concerns. If anyone can improve or shoot this down, then it is YOU. Proposal: 1. To change the name of the contrib repository name to extras [snip] Impact to developers/contributors/users of contrib - Currently configured repository in /etc/apt/sources.list would have to be changed [snip] Sorry, I think you're too late. You should have considered these issues in advance, and introducing another please change your settings to users just looks a little unprofessional so soon after the EABI change (which we all agree was worthwhile, but the users don't think they see the benefit). *If* you want to make such a change, make sure you release a new firmware image that has all the changes and have a short changeover period to minimize the annoyance. And if you are going to release a new firmware image, please release an RC first to get rid of the most obvious bugs. regards, Koen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFCRT9MkyGM64RGpERAquiAJ45posQBexwcLGEnA3XyasOvBYbpwCeNm2k IcY4HaGuQ/SWDnKOJ3/ivhA= =0nKW -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: [maemo-developers] Proposal for streamline maemo repositories
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:38:21AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Flegg schreef: On 9/14/06, Devesh Kothari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proposal to streamline maemo repos. PLEASE give your feedback and concerns. If anyone can improve or shoot this down, then it is YOU. Proposal: 1. To change the name of the contrib repository name to extras [snip] Impact to developers/contributors/users of contrib - Currently configured repository in /etc/apt/sources.list would have to be changed [snip] Sorry, I think you're too late. You should have considered these issues in advance, and introducing another please change your settings to users just looks a little unprofessional so soon after the EABI change (which we all agree was worthwhile, but the users don't think they see the benefit). *If* you want to make such a change, make sure you release a new firmware image that has all the changes and have a short changeover period to minimize the annoyance. And if you are going to release a new firmware image, please release an RC first to get rid of the most obvious bugs. I don't see how this would affect the firmware image because contrib/extras repo is not configured there by default. It seems there was a typo in the URLs in Devesh's mail. I guess it should be http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ instead of ...extra/ ?? Anyways, I feel that this slight reorganization is needed and to me it's not that big of a deal. Br, Jari -- Jari Tenhunen, stardate [-29]6376.04 :wq ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: [maemo-developers] Proposal for streamline maemo repositories
Hi, Devesh Kothari wrote: Proposal to streamline maemo repos. PLEASE give your feedback and concerns If anyone can improve or shoot this down, then it is YOU. Proposal: 1. To change the name of the contrib repository name to extras Reasons that's useful to reduce confusion in future but i'm not sure is it is really that important, if i remember correctly Familiar 0.9 is expected to use the same name for a feed to be used by external contributors. It might be a good idea to keep the old name for a while as a link/copy for the users not following the mailinglist discussions. It is really important to avoid breaking things for less experiences end users. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of todayTel: +49 271-771091-14 and the reality of tomorrow.Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904][EMAIL PROTECTED] 1D78 2D4D 6C53 1CA4 5588 D07B A8E7 940C 25B7 9A76 ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
