Can we get more merge contributors here?

[xzenor]

I almost don't want to contribute to this anymore because everything is taking so terribly long for the changes to be accepted. This is very demotivating.

Also, all the outdated software isn't exactly appealing for new users either as it very much looks like a mostly dead an abandoned project (which it actually kinda is close to become)

[TheBigBear]

@xzenor I hear you and I concur. this proprietary pkg repo has lost it's way years ago ... this is no longer a good windows pkg management repo.
But not only this also the salt-formulas ( not even it's own salt formula ! ) are simply deemed a community project and not maintained along with the main salt upgrades and advances ...
In my opinion this needs to re-focus on the actually used and updated and maintained windows pkg technologies like chocolatey and winget ... ( I know winget does not yet cut it on servers though - but it is starting to begin to work with server 2022 and higher)

[xzenor]

At least winget gets updated. I never worked with chocolatey though so I cannot have an opinion on that.

There's request for winget support here: saltstack/salt#57390

but there are some (good) reservations about it since not all (un)installs are completely silent. However, it's not like the current way is really useful at this state.

[TheBigBear]

@xzenor well right now winget cannot even work or install in system context. They desperately need to add that basic feature, but it still isn't officially even on their roadmap, yet.

[xzenor]

Fair point.
It would fail setups that need human interaction though.. So that's probably why.

[dafyddj]

You could bring this topic up at a Windows working group meeting, which happen monthly.