Notices by Michael J. Gratton (mjog@octodon.social)

@trwnh @michel_slm AUR/COPR/PPA repos do have the advantage of being able to do releases more frequently than main distros, but if the maintainer goes awol, the situation ends up being the same as community maintained packages in the main repo. It also further fragments support options for people using the software - do they report a bug to the distro, the third-party repo, or upstream? And upstream maintaining a third-party repo for N different distros doesn't just scale.

Geary has just adopted the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct for the project's communication channels: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/geary-list/2019-August/msg00002.html

If it hasn't already, maybe it's time your FOSS project did the same?

#Geary #GNOME #FOSS #CoC

Distros really shouldn't package and make available any software they aren't prepared to support. Since distros only really support software that's in their default install, if it's not installed by default, then they shouldn't package it.

#Linux

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