On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 17:55 +0200, Mattia Verga wrote:
> Il 04/04/2018 17:26, Randy Barlow ha scritto:
> > Another thought on this topic:
> > 
> > It's probably a lot of work to maintain OwnCloud and NextCloud, and it
> > sounds like a lot of people have moved to NextCloud or intend to in the
> > future. Would it help if we went ahead and retired OwnCloud so we could
> > focus on just one of the two to reduce the burden?
> > 
> > I'm in the "I use OwnCloud but intend to switch to NextCloud" camp myself.
> > 
> > If there are OwnCloud users who do not want to switch to NextCloud,
> > perhaps they could step in to maintain OwnCloud.
> > _______________________________________________
> > 
> 
> I never used OC or NC, so here are my two cents: both are painful to 
> package in Fedora, so why don't we ask upstream to make some changes 
> that would simplify our work (if there are any)?

They don't want to. They (especially OC) are excessively uninterested
in aiding downstream packaging, think it's a waste of time, and advise
people to use their upstream deployment methods at every opportunity.
This was one major factor in me abandoning efforts to package OC.
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