[maemo-developers] Repositories mess: conclusions and actions

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On 10/27/07, Steve Greenland <steveg at moregruel.net> wrote:
> I also want to point out the classic "the perfect is enemy of the
> good enough". The processes and documents can, and should, evolve as
> the needs of the audience and developers evolve. But almost anything
> would be an improvement to the existing situation. In particular, the
> current situation of encouraging random repositories has absolutely no
> protection against bad packages (or malicious packages). Just getting
> the all the current .debs, no matter what the source, into the same repo
> would be an improvement, because you could remove the bad package from
> distribution immediately, rather than having to somehow spread the word
> that package foo in repo bar should be avoided.

That is one of my main concerns. and a very good reason to use a
centralized process

greetings