On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:58 AM, atilla ontas
<tarakbumba@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi. I'm following this threat from the very beginning. While reading,
community distro, why Mageia developers still think like a Mandriva
employee? Why backports and why so many policies, like a commercial
enterprise distro? I mean, Mageia do not have paid developers to work
on packages all the time. Also Mageia do not have so many packagers
like Fedora or Ubuntu, So, why make so many things so hard?
As wobo mentioned, people like latest and greatest software. I think,
except a few users will use unofficial 3rd party repos to get latest
software. While i was maintaining MVT (Mandriva Turkiye) repository,
our users asked for GNOME 2.32 while Mandriva have GNOME 2.30 on
official release.
Personally i always hate the backports structure and policy. It
confuses minds. Why Mageia need a backports repo, i really do not
understand. Stability and bug free releases are of course a must. But
it needs developers dedicated to work, almost paid developers. If a
software do not related with core system, like vlc, it should included
updates repo. Let upstream fix bugs and security issues. If a packager
catchs a bug he should send a patch to upstream and wait for a new
release. Otherwise, it is not packaging it is coding, which many
potential packgers will avoid to contribute.
+1 I also see no usage of backports. I'm someone quite new to Mandriva/Mageia so I wouldn't know what backports are for (Ubuntu has nothing like this, Fedora too) so why backport?
Look at Debian and Arch Linux who haven't any paid developers but
community distros. Stable Debian releases provide software from a
century ago for the sake of stability. Arch provides latest software
including core system and occaionally have breakages. I think Mageia
should be between two of them. Release latest software in updates for
non core system and libs, keep core system stable. Remove this
backports thingy.
My 2 cents...