On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
> > A community based approach could also provide a "number of open
> > bugs" counter next to the download link of a package.
>
> We can even do that automatically (and redirect the user to a bugzilla
> query for the bugs).
I am starting to like this.
>
> > As a second
> > thought, users could rate a packaging effort on how usable or
> > popular a particular package is.
>
> Thought about this, as well. It's on my todo list, but I don't think I'll
> have the time to add this anytime soon. rhcontrib is not part of my
> official work, and my spare time constantly approaches 0 between betas and
> freezes for finals. ;)
>
> > A restart of the Red Hat Contrib project should not end like the
> > very first Red Hat Contrib server: hundreds of packages, many
> > unmaintained ones,
>
> That's exactly why I've decided to tie every package to bugzilla. ;)
>
> > not in sync with the latest release of the distribution, and so on.
>
> This is taken care of - we accept source RPMs only, and new releases will
> automatically do a mass rebuild.
Are you saying that all of the packages in here would automagically get
rebuilt for a new release with no intervention on the packagers part?
>
> > It should not end as
> > a place where to put arbitrary packages of questionable interest.
>
> I tend to disagree about this particular one: There are a number of
> packages that are very useful only to a very limited number of people
> (think of apps supporting people with disabilities - the packages are of
> no use to maybe 95% of our users, but they're vital to the remaining 5%),
> and we do need a repository for those.
>
> So what we need is, basically, both a place for people to work on packages
> that are interesting to the majority of people, but also a collection of
> packages that are of no use to most people.
>
> If we're getting too many packages, we'll have to come up with a way to
> provide people with what they're looking for - basically improving the
> search feature a lot.
I tend to agree here also. One more question though is the old rhcontrib
list still around and if so should we not mv this thread over there?
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