[Trisquel-devel] 'community' repository for user-contributed codes

[Salman Mohammadi]

Introducing a new repository for user-contributed codes seems to be
necessary for keeping the stability of the distro.

We have some packages which have been imported from the Testing
repository of Debian into the main repository of Trisquel as an LTS
distro. [1-2] and some have been imported from PPAs [a-e] and some have
been backported [A-C]

[1] electrum
[2] zam-plugins

a = cabal-install
b = eviacam
c = filteraudio
d = ghc
e = handbare
f = midori

A = gnome-orca
B = red5
C = wxmaxima

Having a more strict policy against importing these packages into the
main repository will theoretically increase the stability of the distro
but in practice some packages may function better by importing them into
the repo.

All in all, it seems to be a good practice to not let user-contributed
non-critical package helpers into the main repo but creating a new
repository and name it as 'community' and put all those package helpers
there. The end users must have the option to deactivate this repository
in favor of a rock solid distro.