[maemo-developers] Ask for removal of some packages from Extras Fremantle repository

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext luarvique at gmail.com" <luarvique at gmail.com> writes:

> [...] What I do see though is that the Extras admission/promotions
> processes have become so bothersome to developers that they border on
> hostile.

I don't have an opinion on this, since I am not at all involved in any
of the specifics.  (I have no packages in extras, for example.)

> In relation to that, I would like to remind everyone that the life
> does not stop at Extras: it is *ok* to create and maintain your own
> repositories.  If Extras management would like as many developers as
> possible to use Extras, they have to make actual changes to the
> admission/promotion process rather than continue repeating the
> "everything but Extras is evil" mantra.

Yes, very true.  I didn't want to argue against this; sorry if I came
across as defending the current QA process.  I don't know the details
of it, but I fully expect myself to agree with you if I would look into
the details.

>> One of the first things that you learn when you grow up is that it is
>> not a good idea to put everything into your mouth that you find on
>> the ground.
>
> Another thing that you learn when you grow up is that grownups
> generally prefer making their own decisions rather than allowing their
> parents to continue making decisions for them.

Yes, and as you grow up more, you start taking responsibilities for
others and then you see that your parents weren't all that wrong back
then.

>> Thus, we should market the advantages of a centralized repository to our
>> users (down to making adding new repositories with .install files more
>> scary, but still fair), and work to reduce repository fragmentation by
>> seeking out the 'rogue' ones and copying their packages into ours, if
>> legal, and subject to the same QA as other packages, of course.
>
> So, but I am afraid this is not exactly the first thing you should
> do. :)

Yes, I agree.  I just don't feel comfortable talking about the QA
process, since I know nothing about it.