[Mageia-dev] proposal regarding (packager) mentoring program coordinator

[andre999]

Michael Scherer a écrit :
> Le vendredi 01 juillet 2011 à 09:48 -0400, andre999 a écrit :
>
>> I was thinking that developers tend to have _some_ experience packaging their
>> own software - and certainly not usually for many distros.
>
> Unfortunately, they don't.
>
> Look at the various php web software and how they tend to be happy with
> the approach of "let's untar everything in one folder where the web
> server can write and read", or the tendency to bundle every possible
> java software in the sun in the same tarball, thus making proper version
> tracking a nightmare. Or ruby developers who just say "use gem install
> bundle".
>
> Developers are usually far away from the preoccupation of packagers, and
> from the complexity that is required for stuff like unified and
> centralized deployment, upgrading, integration, etc.

Hadn't thought of it that way before, but some of these points ring a bell.
I still have a lot to learn about the problems encountered in packaging.
It might be interesting to prepare a guide that could be sent to offending 
developers .. if there isn't one already.
I've learned at lot about distro processes in the last few months.

-- 
André