Hopefully a new member of the team

[Dejan Lekic]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <
> dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 19 November 2008 at 01:30, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <
>> > dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday, 18 November 2008 at 16:12, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com
>> >
>> > > > wrote:
>> [...]
>> > > > > Why you decided to push rpms into RPMFusion instead of
>> Fedora/EPEL?
>> > > >
>> > > > frankly I did not think they would go into the main repository, at
>> least
>> > > > not yet.
>> > >
>> > > Why not? Are there some patent or other legal issues involved? You can
>> > > always ask on fedora-legal-list to verify.
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > > R.
>> > >
>> > > PS. Please do not top-reply.
>> >
>> > Well, I prefer using newsgroups instead, and this kind of reply is not
>> my
>> > cup of tea to be honest, but OK, I wll reply at the bottom. :)
>>
>> That's a step forward. Now you only need to learn not to mess up quoting
>> and trim signatures and irrelevant parts of previous messages and you'll
>> be all set.
>>
>> > No, there is not a single issue here, it is just me not willing to spend
>> > time reading TWO mailing lists, TWO bugzillas, TWO repositories, etc. I
>> > would much rather prefer working on one place (I hope so) - RPMForge.
>>
>> RPMForge is something different from RPMFusion, so I'm not sure what two
>> mailing lists, bugzillas and repositories you are talking about.
>>
>> > If someone wish later to put these RPMs into Fedora, I will not mind,
>> > but that person will have to maintain it.
>>
>> Well, as has been said in this thread: we're not an alternative to Fedora,
>> we only complement it. If something can go into Fedora, we don't carry it.
>> In fact, we've successfully managed to get several packages previously in
>> RPMFusion into Fedora after legal issues were resolved.
>>
>> Regards,
>> R.
>>
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>>
>
> It was a mistake, i was thinking about RPMFusion, come on, isn't that so
> obvious? :)
>
>
> --
> Dejan Lekic
>  http://dejan.lekic.org
>


OK, I am going to put packages and SPEC files somewhere on the web, and add
a new GIT repository (just SPEC files) and give you information where those
are and how to access them. After someone reviews them (if actually
RPMFusion guys want to do it) and check whether they can go into RPMFusion
repository or not, I expect a feedback together with a simple,
straightforward answer - YES/NO - whether my packages will go into RPMFusion
or not.

Do not get me wrong, but I do not want to bother with politics, and I will
also be fine with negative answer as well. If you guys think these packages
should go into Fedora's main repository it is okay, but I am not going to do
it.

- I have tried to explain my (IMHO valid) reasons for not willing to work
with two projects at the same time. Please understand, these packages are
not the only ones I am going to work on, there will be others, which I am
_sure_ will not go into Fedora, because of legal issues. Eternal Lands
packages I have here are one example of such packages. I did not want to
talk about some more packages I am willing to work on until I successfully
do my first task (Portable.NET), become a member of the project, and then
progress to the stage when I can contribute more by adding some good-quality
stuff into RPMForge.
I have a whole bunch of D (programming language) related packages (dsss,
tango - an alternative D runtime library, ddl, dog, dglut, dmd (potential
legal issues here as compiler backend is not open-source), ldc - the third D
compiler, even the descent - eclipse plugin, and few others, i do not
remember them all :)

To some of you it is not painful to monitor two repositories (which include
bugzillas, mailing lists, emails from various people, cvs, ...), to me it
certainly is, so please try to understand me instead of asking questions why
this, why that... :)

Kind regards

-- 
Dejan Lekic
 http://dejan.lekic.org
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