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I'm following this threat from the very beginning. While reading, +</I>><i> > i feel i'm reading a Mandriva Cooker mailing list posts. As a +</I>><i> > community distro, why Mageia developers still think like a Mandriva +</I>><i> > employee? Why backports and why so many policies, like a commercial +</I>><i> > enterprise distro? I mean, Mageia do not have paid developers to work +</I>><i> > on packages all the time. Also Mageia do not have so many packagers +</I>><i> > like Fedora or Ubuntu, So, why make so many things so hard? +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > As wobo mentioned, people like latest and greatest software. I think, +</I>><i> > except a few users will use unofficial 3rd party repos to get latest +</I>><i> > software. While i was maintaining MVT (Mandriva Turkiye) repository, +</I>><i> > our users asked for GNOME 2.32 while Mandriva have GNOME 2.30 on +</I>><i> > official release. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Personally i always hate the backports structure and policy. It +</I>><i> > confuses minds. Why Mageia need a backports repo, i really do not +</I>><i> > understand. Stability and bug free releases are of course a must. But +</I>><i> > it needs developers dedicated to work, almost paid developers. If a +</I>><i> > software do not related with core system, like vlc, it should included +</I>><i> > updates repo. Let upstream fix bugs and security issues. If a packager +</I>><i> > catchs a bug he should send a patch to upstream and wait for a new +</I>><i> > release. Otherwise, it is not packaging it is coding, which many +</I>><i> > potential packgers will avoid to contribute. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +1 I also see no usage of backports. I'm someone quite new to +</I>><i> Mandriva/Mageia so I wouldn't know what backports are for (Ubuntu has +</I>><i> nothing like this, Fedora too) so why backport? +</I> +It was already explained why in another thread, and this was also +answered in the various thread about mirror layout, on the Mandriva page +about it on the wiki, on the mailling list at that time, and on various +others documentation sources. + +I really do not have the luxury to explain from scratch everything, so +please look at the archive of the ml. + +And speaking of Ubuntu, there is : +<A HREF="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports</A> + +( or <A HREF="http://wiki.debian.org/Backports">http://wiki.debian.org/Backports</A> for Debian, or the proposal ( that +stalled, as said in another thread ) for Fedora : +<A HREF="https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/515">https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/515</A> , due to +<A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Stable_release_updates_vision">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Stable_release_updates_vision</A> ) + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="006034.html">[Mageia-dev] Update of backport, policy proposal +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="006036.html">[Mageia-dev] Update of backport, policy proposal +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#6039">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#6039">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#6039">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#6039">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |