[maemo-community] [Council] Package categories

[From: Simon Pickering]

> So, we need to restart a discussion that's been had before 
> without any  
> real conclusion: the package categories situation.
> 
> Niels has put a lot of work into the issue in the past without a lot  
> of success (unfortunately).[1][2][3] So we're going to help out and  
> see if we can bring the discussion to a useful conclusion this time  
> around. I'm gonna start working on a blog post (unless somebody else  
> wants to volunteer! :D), so the rest of you can start contributing  
> category ideas, and maybe poke at -developers.

My view is this: We should probably look at debtags, but in the meantime,
start with the full list of categories which Niels pulled out (i.e. the
Debian ones + the extra ones he suggested), and ask the -devel list if there
are any they would like removed; patch the package manager to place all
packages which don't have an official category into an "Other" section.

That should make things clearer for the users as there are fewer sections
for them to look at, no worse than at the moment (they can still search
"All" just as most people do, and hopefully having their package appear in
"Others" will spur package maintainers to either change their section or get
involved in explaining why they need something extra.

Cheers,


Simon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-community-bounces at maemo.org 
> [mailto:maemo-community-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Abel
> Sent: 16 October 2008 19:27
> To: maemo-community-request at maemo.org community development
> Subject: [Council] Package categories
> 
> Hello, fellow council members!
> 
> So, we need to restart a discussion that's been had before 
> without any  
> real conclusion: the package categories situation.
> 
> Niels has put a lot of work into the issue in the past without a lot  
> of success (unfortunately).[1][2][3] So we're going to help out and  
> see if we can bring the discussion to a useful conclusion this time  
> around. I'm gonna start working on a blog post (unless somebody else  
> wants to volunteer! :D), so the rest of you can start contributing  
> category ideas, and maybe poke at -developers.
> 
> Related: I've been emailing maintainers with clearly non-compliant  
> sections, the response has been positive so far (from the 
> maintainers  
> that have actually bothered to reply, anyway).
> 
> 
> [1]http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories
> [2]http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/developers/36133
> [3]http://communitizer.blogspot.com/2008/04/rfc-maemo-package-
> guidelines-mandatory.html
> 
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> Ryan Abel
> Maemo Community Council chair
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