[csw-maintainers] OpenCSW Summer Camp

[Peter Bonivart]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Can you explain what you mean by "tiered packages"?

Sure, this is from the Suggestions page on the wiki:

# Packages in tiers. [bonivart] We should classify each package in a
tier according to how common/critical/important it is. Tier 1 should
be the packages that most will install and are likely to be critical
on those systems, examples can be Apache2, Bind, MySQL, OpenSSL and
Sendmail. Tier 2 should be packages similar to tier 1 but maybe not as
common and/or critical, one example might be Perl. Tier 3 is the rest.

   * I envision tier 1 to be around 25 packages, tier 2 around 100 and
tier 3 the rest.
   * Tier 1 packages must always be actively maintained, possibly by
more than one maintainer for quick responses to security updates and
bug reports. All tier 1 packages must be in GAR.
   * Tier 2 packages should be actively maintained by maintainers who
use their own packages on a daily basis. Packages should be in GAR.
   * Tier 3 has no special requirements.


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/peter