[Mageia-discuss] UK user community?

[Tux99]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> So, although I would wish only one repository (makes it much easier
> for mirror maintainers and users) I doubt that it will come to that.

Why so pessimistic? I don't see why it shouldn't be possible.

I think there should be an new repo called for example contrib-extra, to 
which occasional contributors can contribute.

I can see it working the following way:

The contributor submits the SRPM (source RPM) of the package he/she has 
made, then a Mageia packager looks at the spec file and the 
other included files to see that it all looks ok, then builds it on the 
official build servers (signed with a Mageia key) and then places it 
into the contrib-extra repository.

The difference between the contrib-extra repo and the more official 
repos should be that the rules for inclusion should be less strict (no 
commitment from the contributor to keep the package updated, no official 
debugging and support from Mageia, acceptance of less free licenses, no 
need to stringently follow former Mandriva packaging rules, etc).