Re: external maintainers

[Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>]

Le Thursday 08 January 2009 19:54:02 Florent Monnier, vous avez écrit :
> > Ususally, packaging follows naturally the need for a given software, and
> > I feel natural that it is not done by its author if he does not use the
> > distro himself.
>
> What I would personaly feel as natural, is that we could provide the
> possibility for an author to make his soft available for the most used
> linux distros if he is willing to do so.
> But I understand if you think it's a bad idea.

It is a bad idea if it badly done.

For instance, under the OCaml team, we have a lot of work to do when updating 
ocaml compiler, since every package has to be recompiled.

More generally, we follow a policy for stating how to prepare a good ocaml 
package. When updating the policy, we have to update all ocaml-related 
packages too.

All in all, package management must be done as a whole, not only per-package 
or maintainer. Hence, in your situation, the better alternative would be to 
join our team and add your packages in our repository so that we can perform 
those changes if needed.

Romain