[Mageia-dev] proposal regarding (packager) mentoring program coordinator

Fri Jul 1 17:20:39 CEST 2011

Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le vendredi 01 juillet 2011 à 09:48 -0400, andre999 a écrit :
+>
+>> I was thinking that developers tend to have _some_ experience packaging their
+>> own software - and certainly not usually for many distros.
+>
+> Unfortunately, they don't.
+>
+> Look at the various php web software and how they tend to be happy with
+> the approach of "let's untar everything in one folder where the web
+> server can write and read", or the tendency to bundle every possible
+> java software in the sun in the same tarball, thus making proper version
+> tracking a nightmare. Or ruby developers who just say "use gem install
+> bundle".
+>
+> Developers are usually far away from the preoccupation of packagers, and
+> from the complexity that is required for stuff like unified and
+> centralized deployment, upgrading, integration, etc.
+
+Hadn't thought of it that way before, but some of these points ring a bell.
+I still have a lot to learn about the problems encountered in packaging.
+It might be interesting to prepare a guide that could be sent to offending 
+developers .. if there isn't one already.
+I've learned at lot about distro processes in the last few months.
+
+-- 
+André
+