There is still plenty of such packages all around the internet. I have a
few packages I am using but haven't have the motivation to push them
through the review and i am not even sure if they could go through, but
I am positive that somebody would benefit from them.
Vit
Dne 27.4.2012 15:29, Aleksandar Kurtakov napsal(a):
I have seen way too many problems caused by people installing such
*nonmaintained* packages to even think this will cause more troubles than it will solve.
Alex
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vít Ondruch"<vondruch(a)redhat.com>
> To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:32:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Proposal for revitalizing the sponsorship process for packaging
>
> Dne 26.4.2012 18:13, Alec Leamas napsal(a):
>> On 04/26/2012 05:49 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:32:17 +0200, AL (Alec) wrote:
>>>
>>>> OT? The question here isn't really what submitters do or don't,
>>>> isn't
>>>> it what we could do to improve the process?.
>>> The point is that not all submitters are collaborative, and others
>>> don't
>>> seek for sponsors actively. In the needsponsor queue are lots of
>>> tickets
>>> where packages are not ready or where a reviewer is simply waiting
>>> for
>>> the submitter to respond. It isn't sooooo easy to find submitters
>>> who
>>> are willing for compromise and adapt the Fedora's requirements.
>> People are note always nice, agreed. But isn't part of the problem
>> that current process forces people which just are interested in a
>> package to suddenly discover that they are applying to be
>> packagers?
>> Shouldn't some of these cases be better off if they could drop
>> "their" package in some kind of wishlist 2.0, and try to get in
>> contact with a packager instead?
> I am thinking about some "dumping" repository, where people would
> dump
> their packages and they would need almost no qualification. Of course
> using such packages would be without any warranty. The packages would
> not be owned by anybody, so everybody would improve them (or
> eventually
> corrupt them ;)). Once somebody would be interested enough to become
> official maintainer, he would apply to official review and the
> package
> would get into official Fedora repo.
>
> Actually it shouldn't be that hard to achieve it with tiny changes to
> current infrastructure IMO. It seems to be still better option then
> to
> trust to 3rd party repo or OBS.
>
>
> Vit
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