Where we are and where do we what to go - encouraging third party repos.

[David Timms]

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.