On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:17:20 +0100, Ondřej Kučera <ondrej.kucera@centrum.cz> wrote:
Hi,
Allan McRae wrote:
So lets start there. What should the [community] repo be doing? What is its purpose? There is no point discussing anything else until that is well defined. All responses must start with "The [community] repo is ..."
The [community] repo is - in my non-dev, non-TU very humble opinion - a repository for packages that are perhaps not as widely used as those in [core] or those in [extra] but still used by enough users, so that it's reasonable to provide them in binary form, providing that there is a way to do so. I always figured that there is only so many devs and only so many packages a single dev can maintain, which leads to a limited number of packages in [core]/[extra]. That's why there are TUs and that's why there is [community] - so that the number of packages provided in binary form (by people that hopefully can be trusted) is larger.
But what I actually wanted most to say was "amen" to your e-mail, Allan, I think you've summarized feelings of many people...
The [community] repo is - Very well put this is what I thougth the community repo was for also. -- Brandon Martin