Re: [Expert] Some questions about Mandriva

["Vincent Panel" <yohonet@gmail.com>]

First a question : are you subscribed to the list you're posting to ?

As Anne said, you're probably not sending this to the correct list :
this is more a list to help people deal with their problems. You'll be
able to contact developers on their mailing list : cooker. But don't
get frutrated if you don't get a lot of answers, because Mandriva is
in RC2 and really on the verge to be released... so they are really
busy right now.

> Q1. Packages
> How many "pieces of software" do you have in your distribution? Do you
> distinguish between "source packages" and "binary packages"? (if yes,
> give numbers for both). Are there subdivisions in the set of packages (by
> kind of support, by "freeness")? Are all packages supported the same way,
> or are there different levels of support? (If different levels, how many
> packages are supported with each level?) Are some packages imported from
> another distribution, or are most of your packages done from scratch by
> your developers ?
>
> Q2. Your developers
> What's a "developer" in your distribution? How many developers do you
> have? How many of these developers were active in 2007? Does a company
> (which one?) employ a large number of developers? Do you have different
> "classes" of developers, or does everybody have the same access right to
> all your packages? How do you integrate new developers? How do you
> handle contributors who don't have access rights to the archive? (is
> there some kind of mentoring/sponsoring system?)
>
> Q3. Developers and packages ownership
> What's the relationship between developers and packages? Does each
> package have an assigned developer, or can everybody modify all packages
> without stepping on anyone's toes? Are packages mostly maintained by
> teams, or by developers working alone?
>
> Other questions:
> - Did I send that mail to the right mailing list?
> - Which question should I have asked? What should I ask next?
> - Do you think that this initiative is interesting?
> - Do you think that this should move to a seperate mailing list? Would
>   you participate in such a mailing list?
> - Can you suggest a project that could host such a mailing list without
>   annoying anyone? :)
> - Any other suggestions?




2007/9/21, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm involved both in Debian and Ubuntu development, and I'm often
> frustrated by how little I know about the other distributions. After
> discussing this in a blog post[1], I got the impression that I wasn't
> alone in that case.
>
> So I decided to do something about that, and to go ask the other
> distributions' developers a few questions. If this works well (answers and
> interest from other distros), I might do that again, or turn this into
> something more formal (for example, a mailing list and/or a wiki would
> seem well suited for that).
>
> I started by contacting openSUSE and Fedora developers developers, and got
> very interesting answers.  I'll publish the answers on my blog[2], and, if
> this proves to raise interest, move them to a wiki.
>
> [1] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=250
> [2] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/
>
> Here is a first set of questions. In your answers, please avoid codenames
> (act as if the reader didn't know anything about your distribution).
> Please try to write your answer as a short paragraph, answering all the
> sub-questions from the questions at once.
>
> Q1. Packages
> How many "pieces of software" do you have in your distribution? Do you
> distinguish between "source packages" and "binary packages"? (if yes,
> give numbers for both). Are there subdivisions in the set of packages (by
> kind of support, by "freeness")? Are all packages supported the same way,
> or are there different levels of support? (If different levels, how many
> packages are supported with each level?) Are some packages imported from
> another distribution, or are most of your packages done from scratch by
> your developers ?
>
> Q2. Your developers
> What's a "developer" in your distribution? How many developers do you
> have? How many of these developers were active in 2007? Does a company
> (which one?) employ a large number of developers? Do you have different
> "classes" of developers, or does everybody have the same access right to
> all your packages? How do you integrate new developers? How do you
> handle contributors who don't have access rights to the archive? (is
> there some kind of mentoring/sponsoring system?)
>
> Q3. Developers and packages ownership
> What's the relationship between developers and packages? Does each
> package have an assigned developer, or can everybody modify all packages
> without stepping on anyone's toes? Are packages mostly maintained by
> teams, or by developers working alone?
>
> Other questions:
> - Did I send that mail to the right mailing list?
> - Which question should I have asked? What should I ask next?
> - Do you think that this initiative is interesting?
> - Do you think that this should move to a seperate mailing list? Would
>   you participate in such a mailing list?
> - Can you suggest a project that could host such a mailing list without
>   annoying anyone? :)
> - Any other suggestions?
>
> Thank you for reading me so far -- and for answering my questions if you
> did. ;) If you want me to ping you when I'll publish the answers, just
> drop me a mail.
> --
> | Lucas Nussbaum
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>