[rkward-devel] How to deal with binary packages?

[Germán Márquez Mejía]

Hi

El 30/04/09 16:40, Thomas Friedrichsmeier escribió:
> 1) Upload all contributed packages to the sourceforge download page. In case 
> this is your favorite, there's a catch, though: I'd like to delegate most of 
> the work to another person. Making file-releases is a cumbersome process, 
> already, and I don't want it to take up yet more of my time. Volunteers?
> 
> 1b) Upload to a regular directory on an HTTP-server (like 
> http://rkward.sf.net/temp/). Possibly slightly easier to handle, but still 
> I'd like to delegate that task.
> 
> 2) Have most packages hosted somewhere else, and simply keep a list of links 
> to those packages. Somewhat similar to 
> http://rkward.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Binaries_and_Build_Scripts 
> (or 
> http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Binaries_and_Build_Scripts 
> in the new wiki). However, we'd probably re-organize this page a bit, and try 
> to make it more prominent (by advertising it as the primary download page).
> 
> 3) Something else?
> 
> What do you - and especially the packagers - think?

I'm inclined towards no. 2 with help of 1b for those who don't 
have/trust a third-party host/repository. I think that the "Binaries and 
Build Scripts" page has been a little bit "hidden" from the users, but 
has a lot of potencial. Perhaps every packager can put things in order 
within "his/her" section. Then we can explicitly assign an official 
package maintainer for each distro and announce it in the wiki - so we 
can distribute tasks. This way all other contributors must address to 
him/her before submitting any packages.

For example, in Slackware-based distros, the decision would lay between 
slackpackages or slackbuilds, but that's another discussion.

And that's my humble opinion :-b

-- 
Mancho

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