On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:50:03PM -0500, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:31:00 +0200
> Axel Thimm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > > 1) Did one of you heard anything about future merger of the repos:
> > > dag/dries/atrpms/centosplus/extras/karan ?
> > Yes, I have.
> >
> > > Are there any talks going on? What is the state of the
> > > prospective merger? Or is this all merely a hearsay?
> >
> > It's more than a hearsay, but I'm not sure what other people would
> > like me to blab out right now. But out of curiosity where did you pick
> > this up?
> Hi,
> I explained that in a reply to Connie Sieh answer (before I read your
> letter).
> 
> If you may to tell us at a rough estimate the date when the talks
> are to be finalized, both me and "we, the community" would be thankful
> for satiating our curiosity.

I hope very soon. We're trying to come up with a model that will
satisfy all user groups, e.g. "latest and greatest" vs "mature and
stable", "OK in US" vs "OK in the rest of the world", "Replace base
packages" vs "pure add ons". And last but not least with a sensible
name.

And BTW even though this is all very unofficial yet: Anyone with
interest to package additional software is welcome to join up and also
shape the early roadmap.

> Of course it has more serious dimension - practical one. And very
> grave one. Present state of the affairs are simply speaking
> unbearable. (Not to say the status quo is wasting precious human
> resources).

Well, I've never really encountered anyone that disapproved that much
about the status quo, but for sure the situation can be improved quite
a lot by joining the horsepowers together.

Which will not mean that it will be "one repo, and nothing else". We
all believe in the plethora of repos and will welcome any other
existing or to be created repo that will cooperate with us.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net