[Mageia-discuss] UK user community?

Tux99 tux99-mga at uridium.org
Mon Sep 20 13:05:48 CEST 2010


On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, atilla ontas wrote:

> Also local communities can package software just for their needs and
won't placed in official repos. Like we providing Zekr (Quran study
tool) and zemberek (Turkish spell-checking tool) on Mandriva Turkiye
repository (MVT)

Hi Atilla,

while I understand why you did that previously with Mandriva, I think we 
should aim to have ALL packages in the central repositories with Mageia.
For example the tools you mentioned can be useful to people outside 
Turkey too (there are so many Turks living all over Europe), who will 
never find out that they even exist if they are hidden away in a local 
MVT repository.

I hope the Mageia repos will be managed in such a way that it will be 
much easier for occasional contributors to contribute packages.

I have been active with some packaging as well in the past (see:
http://www.linuxtech.net/downloads/ ), but never bothered to get them 
included in the Mandriva repos as the procedure wasn't clear and the 
info on how to do it that I found made it look complicated and 
time-consuming to do so.

Mageia should have an additional contrib repository where it's easy for 
occasional contributors to submit packages, even when the submitter 
can't guarantee to maintain them long-term.
Of course it should be made clear for the users that these packages are 
from external contributors and not regularly maintained but even so they 
can be valuable to users.



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