[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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