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. _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss
