[Mageia-discuss] UK user community?

[gejo]

This sounds great.

I like contrib-extra idea for occasional contributors.


Bye.


On Lunes, 20 de Septiembre de 2010 13:47:10 Tux99 escribió:
> 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).
> 
> 
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