[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] A proposal of some kind to get point of views & comments

Sat Apr 21 02:56:45 CEST 2012

On 21/04/12 00:00, William Tracy wrote:
+>
+> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Sebastian sebsebseb 
+> <sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com <mailto:sebsebseb_mageia at gmx.com>> wrote:
+>
+>     As for the PPA's themselves or the something like it, would need a
+>     website for it like they have for Ubuntu
+>     https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas and they should only be offered
+>     on the site from people who have gone through the Mageia packaging
+>     process and become trusted packagers I think.
+>
+>
+> My understanding was that part of the attraction of Ubuntu's PPAs was 
+> that any registered user could create one, making it an easy way for 
+> developers to distribute their software until Ubuntu proper gets 
+> around to creating an official package.
+
+Yes that's correct anyone that knows how can make a PPA for Ubuntu. As 
+for registration I think that has never been needed to make PPA's for 
+Ubuntu.
+
+Users of any PPA have to trust the person or people who made it, that 
+they aren't getting malicious software from the PPA.  So on a official 
+Mageia PPA's or something like PPA's sub site, they could be offered, 
+but I think should only be from people who have gone through the Mageia 
+packaging process and that are trusted, as I suggested in the other message.
+
+With Ubuntu Some PPA's used to be sort of supported by the Ubuntu 
+Community, more recently in general PPA's with Ubuntu are supported 
+more, because the software centre can install them for example.
+
+Before PPA's if I remember correctly Wine used to have a special repo 
+for Ubuntu, but for a rather long time those that want the very latest 
+final version can install the PPA instead. Pidgin also offers a PPA and 
+has done for a rather long time for it's latest final version.
+
+With Ubuntu 11.04 which uses GNOME 2 with their patches as the fall back 
+mode, and Unity on top of GNOME 2 as the default, there was also a PPA 
+made for GNOME 3. I tried the PPA out in both Beta 2 and the final I 
+think, and it didn't work that well for me, and this seems to have been 
+the case for a lot of other people as well, but it was known to be buggy.
+
+So put simply all a PPA tends to be is a way for users to easily install 
+later versions of software without having to use a development version 
+of the distribution that offers a later version of the software that is 
+wanted.  Or without waiting until the next version of the distribution.
+
+PPA's are repo's as a result the software in those repo's will be 
+updated usually at times, and proper updates not just security.
+
+With PPA's it's ok for them to be buggy as mentioned in my previous 
+email, because unlike backports they probably haven't gone through a 
+proper QA process.
+
+Backports from Cauldron to Mageia 2  it seems will probably start being 
+offered soon after Mageia 2 has been released, but I don't know for 
+sure. However I do think that having something like PPA's as well for 
+Mageia would be quite a good thing indeed! As long as users understand 
+that they may be buggy, and shouldn't be relied on to much if wanting 
+loads of later software, than what the current latest stable version of 
+Mageia at the time is offering.  Many Mageia users who would like a lot 
+of later versions of software than what the repo's of a final version of 
+Mageia has, should probably be running Cauldron instead really.
+
+ From Sebastian sebsebseb
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