1) It was not maintained, only occasionally somebody added something 2) Nobody really looked at it.And also, one thing is to add package into Fedora, but maintain it long term is completely different issue.
BTW nobody ever complained that I have removed the wish list and nobody bothered to reintroduce it.
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Dne 23. 12. 21 v 0:47 Jakub Kadlčík napsal(a):
Hello,
TL;DR What about a place where people could ask for something to be
packaged in Fedora?
I haven't seen almost any distribution having a package wishlist so it
is either a bad idea (and doesn't have any real value) or everybody
else missed a good opportunity. Or possibly they (maybe even Fedora)
have it, but it is not advertised well.
The use-cases, I imagine:
1. I am a non-technical Fedora user without the ability to learn RPM
packaging, and I would like to have some software in the Fedora
repositories.
2. I want to learn RPM packaging and I don't want to package
hello.spec for the hundredth time
3. I want to become a Fedora packager but I don't work on an upstream
project that is not already in the Fedora repositories.
4. I am bored and feeling altruistic
Implementation options:
1. A standalone website - Sounds like a **lot** of work. We would need
to submit and list the requests, subscribe with email, allow marking
something as blocked by something else, etc.
2. Since the thing, I am describing is basically an issue tracker, we
could create a project on Pagure and have just issues in it
(similar to what https://pagure.io/fedora-magazine-newsroom has)
or on GitHub (similar to what rpmfusion has
https://github.com/rpmfusion-infra/fedy/issues/new/choose). I
personally prefer this option because we could have this
up-and-running in minutes, see if people find it useful and
scratch it otherwise.
3. Bugzilla - More complicated setup than a project on
Pagure/GitHub, more complex UI discouraging newbies and
non-technical people to use it (which is a problem, since they are
the target audience). On the other hand, we could easily link
wished packages from package review tickets.
4. Wiki - I don't have many experiences with wikis but I never
enjoyed working with them. IMHO they are a boring middle ground
between static page generators and websites with a database, always
being worse than those two. But if you think a wiki would be a
good fit, I am fine with that.
5. Basically 2. or 3. but with a website, that presents the issues
from Pagure or Bugzilla in a more friendly format. I can see some
benefits to this, and I would certainly enjoy implementing it,
but I see this as a long-term thing, only if the whole package
wishlist idea works.
Other distributions:
- GNU/Guix - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Wishlist - That
wiki actually looks good
- OpenSuse - https://tr.opensuse.org/Paket_%C4%B0stek_Listesi_(Wishlist)
- RPM Fusion - https://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist
What do you think? Do we have anything like this? Should we try it?
What option should we go with?
Jakub
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