Hi all,
Here is my first suggestion to clean up the complete mess we have at the
moment when it comes to package categories in the maemo extras repository.
There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state
we are in now.
We have these nice categories for example: 'Boingo',
ext Niels Breet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state
we are in now.
There is, http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html:
Ok, we need to get this in the official documentation. I don't think many
developers will
ext Niels Breet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state
we are in now.
There is, http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html:
Segments and Sections
By default, the AM only shows packages in certain segments to
user/accessoriesAccessories
user/communication Communication
user/games Games
user/multimedia Multimedia
user/office Office
user/other Other
user/programmingProgramming
user/supportSupport
user/themes Themes
user/tools
ext Simon Pickering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can the Debian system support multiple sub-categories? E.g.
user/multimedia/Ringtones
That would be debtags, http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/
We have been talking about using debtags instead of the Section:
user/FOO hack to control visibility,
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Marius Vollmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ext Niels Breet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We need to come up with an official list and don't allow new categories to
be created unless the community feels it is needed.
I am sure you notice the conflict here:
Niels Breet wrote:
Hi all,
Here is my first suggestion to clean up the complete mess we have at the
moment when it comes to package categories in the maemo extras repository.
There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state
we are in now.
We have these nice
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Marius Vollmer
I am sure you notice the conflict here: whatever list you come up with
will be unsuitable for someone. You want strict policy enforcement,
based on community 'feelings'. How can that work?
Can
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Marius Vollmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's what we've got now!
Yeah, but you cut the important part:
At the same time, make it possible for people to improve policy
compliance by doing concrete work
On Thursday 17 April 2008 12:33:26 Marius Vollmer wrote:
I am sure you notice the conflict here: whatever list you come up with
will be unsuitable for someone. You want strict policy enforcement,
based on community 'feelings'. How can that work?
I am strongly against strict enforcement. All
On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:33:31 Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
I agree, but apparently many do not. You may remember I posted about
this a few months ago: In addition to complaining I also filed dozens of
bugs in various places.
That was very useful, thanks. For GPE I fixed the packages appearing
On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:36:15 Marius Vollmer wrote:
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Having said that, perhaps the MOTU-style proposal of gatekeepers doing
QA checks could help here. Deviation is permitted, if it gets through
a gatekeeper:
Yes, I agree. I was proposing
At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:52:07 +0100,
Graham Cobb wrote:
The second problem is the real problem: categories are random, overlapp or
are
just variant words for the same thing and are not translated. As someone
suggested when this was last discussed, some months ago, I believe there
should
I agree with what Graham suggests.
Good maintainers will follow the category list and try to figure out where
to put their
packages and are still able to create a new one (eventually accepted or
rejected) by
the community.
Bad ones will be reported of their mistakes.
The AM could follow the
ext Graham Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thursday 17 April 2008 13:36:15 Marius Vollmer wrote:
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Having said that, perhaps the MOTU-style proposal of gatekeepers doing
QA checks could help here. Deviation is permitted, if it gets through
a
ext Andrew Flegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The gatekeepers would be the ones fixing non-compliance (by rejecting
violations, or by correcting them directly).
I agree. Excellent, we've got the start of consensus :-)
But we still need someone that is able/willing to actually execute
On Thursday 17 April 2008 14:46:04 Marius Vollmer wrote:
ext Graham Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NO. NO. NO! No one gets to change my package!
Don't worry, nobody is going to do that. :-) I was thinking about the
normal Debian 'overrides' machinery.
I realised that was the mechanism
Yes! Yes! A thousand times, yes!
--
Allen Brown
http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
Hi all,
Here is my first suggestion to clean up the complete mess we have at the
moment when it comes to package categories in the maemo extras repository.
There is no official list of categories,
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