* Remy CLOUARD (shikam...@mandriva.org) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 06:34:24PM +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The peoples/ directory is dedicated to contributors and must allow > > anyone to share files related to the distribution (testing rpms, > > preworks) in an unofficial ways. > > How this can be setup in practice still have to be discuss. > Hi, I would like to ask some details about this: > As some of you might know, I’m using awesome for a window manager and > have been providing RPMS for quite some time for it on my website. > > May I use the peoples repository to provide it as well as a customized > cairo (with xcb enabled) ?
As a mirror manager I say yes: I'll discuss with sys-admin team about how we can setup this, with a per user disk space limit (to avoid issue). From a project point of view it is veey different. The mirror tree is what some people will see about Mageia and I do think: - people content must be related to mageia - everything that can be included in the distrib must provide as RPMs using BS - people content must respect our policies. In a nutshell: this must be discuss. Having a people is at time just an idea, but it solve a need I had in mandriva to provide some rpms for testing purpose. > > Will users be able to add this as another repository ? I don't know any process to deny someone to push hdlists and rpms. However I don't think it is a good idea to use this space as an alternative to oficial mageia. The risk is to confuse people. Also, I'd like to notice this space is not a way to provide your own project, there is platform for that (sourceforge, zarb, gnu, etc...) > > I must admit the process was quite painful for me up till now, this > sounds to me like an easy way to provide and maintain this RPM. > > If we switch to git for the VCS, I would just make my own branch on top > of the regular cairo/awesome branch, and it would definitely ease this > process. WDYT ? > > Regards, > -- > Rémy CLOUARD > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- Olivier Thauvin CNRS - LATMOS ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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