[indiana-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Jim Walker <James.Walker at Sun.COM> [2008-11-18 09:35]:
> I moved the process description onto opensolaris.org for final review:
> 
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/contributing/
> 
> Take a look and let me know what else needs to be updated.

* The link on
  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/contributing/ to
  the Package Classifications is broken.

* The "Contrib Repo Process" states that the "...source code used
  to build the package must be referenced by url or included,
  unless explicitly approved..."
  Can you be more specific? Does that mean the whole source code
  plus all used patches? Or does that also include build
  instructions/build recipes (e.g. a spec-file)?

* Why not explicitly require all opensource software to be
  submitted with sources, e.g. reformulate the above as "...unless
  it is non-OSS and explicitly approved..."?

* If the above means that build instructions/build recipes need to
  be included (unless approved otherwise), why not rebuild the
  packages on the trusted build server before inclusion in
  /contrib? I seriously doubt that any reviewer will rebuild it
  just to verify that the submitted package's contents correspond
  to the source.

* Could packages submitted without source please be tagged or
  otherwise categorized so that they can easily be filtered out by
  users?

-- 
Guido Berhoerster