gdk redhat com (Greg DeKoenigsberg) writes: > How will we scale this project to a million packages? I do not think that we will have millions of packages... freshmeat lists around 35000 packages and we (Core + Extras) are currently at 2000 packages. > Because that's the goal. The goal of Fedora Extras, in my mind, is to > provide all of the software in the world to all of the people in the > world. Nothing less. I would add the word 'high-quality' somewhere... Thousands of crappy packages do not help somebody and make the repository useless. > 1. Novice packager builds crap package with the assistance of > fe-pkg-builder. > 2. Novice packager puts crap package thru fe-pkg-lint, which points out > large chunks of crap. Where can I download fe-pkg-lint? ;) IMO, you can detect only a small class of errors by automatic tests, real QA needs human intervention. Enrico
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