[maemo-developers] External Repository and HAM

[From: Thomas Perl]

2010/3/8 Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> ext Benoît HERVIER <khertan at khertan.net> writes:
>> The purpose is to migrate my softwares from "extras" to my own
>> repository as i ll not push anymore my applications to extras, but
>> only on my own repository.
>
> Ahh, ok.  This is not something that is well supported (as you have
> found out), and I believe the Maemo community discourages this.  Maybe
> there is a possibilty for you to keep your package in Extras?

I have a similar problem. If the Maemo community wants developers
to publish their packages in Maemo Extras, please make sure that
problems with the autobuilder are dealt with in a reasonable time frame.

I haven't published a new version of MaePad in Extras for nearly a
month now, because of autobuilder issues (with sharing-dialog-dev):

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9070

In the mean time, several new versions have been published, and I'm
distributing binary .debs on the MaePad homepage, which is not an
optimal solution.

I don't know if Khertan's problem is technical or political, but please try
to fix the technical problems with the Extras repository, or even more
developers will create their own repos again (think gronmayer.com), and
because of the "trust domain" issue, this might result in several people
requesting to have their packages pulled from Extras in order to be
able to distribute their packages from another repo (it also means that
less packages go through Extras-Testing / the Extras QA Queue).

I guess this is not what the community wants, right?

Thomas