[maemo-developers] External Repository and HAM

[From: Matan Ziv-Av]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Graham Cobb wrote:

> On Monday 08 March 2010 13:09:52 Benoît HERVIER wrote:
>>> 2010/3/8 Thomas Perl <th.perl at gmail.com>:
>>> "I don't know if Khertan's problem is technical or political"
>>
>> The both, as i'm tired of fighting against bug and wrong thumb down in
>> QA Testing.
>
> Thomas, I was not aware that there was a problem with the autobuilder, with no
> workround, preventing some packages from building.  That is definitely a
> severe problem and I will certainly push hard for a solution.  Thank you for
> your efforts and your patience.
>
> Benoît, I am very disappointed that you have decided to create a separate
> repository.  I am not sure if you were around in the early days, with the
> 770, but the proliferation of repositories made things unmanageable for both
> users and developers, even with the very small number of users we had then.
> The problem was not just finding packages: the worst problems were
> incompatabilites that prevented two packages from even being installed on the
> same system! Re-creating that mess is no solution to even the most serious
> problems we have today.

Why not have another repository (called extras-authors), describe it as 
repository of programs that their authors think are good enough for 
users, and allow authors sole discretion on promoting their packages 
from extras-devel to extras-authors. As long as the name is neutral, and 
the wiki/forum/mail-list are not full of warnings in size 72 blinking 
red letters that this repository certainly without any doubt will 
destroy your device, I am sure most of those who have seperate 
repositories will prefer to use such repository. I know that I will.
After all, this is how extras repository worked in chinook/diablo, and I 
think it worked very well.


-- 
Matan.