-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Janne Karhunen wrote: > On Thursday 13 October 2005 21:35, Christoph Thiel wrote: ... >> The decision-making authority on what's distributed via YOU is held by the >> project managers for SUSE Linux. Basically the policy is to distributed >> security fixes and fixes for "serious" bugs. If there are user-contributed >> fixes for bugs that are qualifyed as "serious" (by the project managers), >> than we will of course publish an update via YOU. We normally don't do >> updates to add extra features, etc. > > Any chances we could set up a BZ voting system for these? It > would probably serve as a good input to SUSE managers as what > is considered as 'serious' by the users.
That's not the idea. At least not at the moment. IMHO. As far as YOU is concerned, it's "only" to distribute security fixes and severe bugfixes. But I suppose that you mean "in general", not just YOU. "SUSE Linux" is the Linux distribution and package selection as decided by the SUSE project and/or product managers because they offer support for those packages. If you would like to have another package selection, then make your own, based on the packages available in SUSE Linux OSS, but that won't be "SUSE Linux". Christoph, AJ, Adrian: please correct me if I'm wrong ;) As an example, have a look at SUPER, SLICK, etc...: http://www.opensuse.org/1_CD_install#How_to_create_your_own_1_CD_install http://www.opensuse.org/SUPER http://www.opensuse.org/SLICK Note that the SUSE staff has some great ideas to "solve" those "issues", namely the Build Servers. There isn't much information that can be disclosed as of now, just because I think the concept has to go through some more reviews and prototyping before it can be announced to the community in a detailed way. Well, at least, that's my opinion about it, I don't work for Novell/SUSE, so... I'll leave that decision (when to give details about the build servers) to AJ, Adrian, Christoph, ... ;) Basically, without getting into the details, what is trying to be achieved is that you could (if it is technically feasible) create your distribution based on a package selection of yours, pretty much "à la carte". Yes, with tool support. And yes, the package selection will include packages maintained by community packagers (i.e. packagers not employed by Novell, like Packman, me, ...). At least that's the plan ;) And if you have software that's not packaged on SUSE Linux, have a look at the 3rd party packagers' repositories. And if it's still not there, either package them yourselves (e.g. join Packman to maintain them) or ask the Packman team, me, or another community packager whether he has the time to make and maintain RPMs of it. The list of repositories is available here: http://www.opensuse.org/YaST_package_repository cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDT1B6r3NMWliFcXcRAq1mAJ9odK6sbk39fd3A5ydo7478tgIH/QCbBOd1 DKKojtKJEdDrd36NG7ZiXhA= =WaRs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
