Re: Where we are and where do we what to go - encouraging third party repos.
Andrea Musuruane wrote:
invite 3rd party maintainers again and ask them to join. If they
don't
want to join, we should politely ask why. We should stress about our
strengths and the benefits of joining (only one repo, very visible,
peer review to improve quality, build system, cvs, etc).
- Are we better at backups ? How are we protected from various potential
hardware failures / issues ?
- Can we present estimates on user base ? for each repo ? [and if this
is bigger than I imagined - would making such info available potentially
bring the big fish circling - trying to get packages removed and so
forth ?].
- Having lots of regularly updated mirrors is a positive to mention;
leads to faster user installs and updates, and (if mirrormanager is
giving out a prioritized list) better resiliency. They would be welcome
to become an extra mirror, so that their exsting resources (web host,
bandwidth) can still be used if they wish.
- Having external packagers being able to easily manage the actual
package push requst (bohdi), and to easily link amongst cvs, koji, bohdi
and package db - just like fedora - would probably help them to feel
that they are still reasonably in control. Although, this gets back to
limited persons with the sign/push capability.
DaveT.