Introduction

[Paul Howarth]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 25.11.2008 12:57, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> On 25.11.2008 11:48, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>>> On 24.11.2008 15:38, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>>>> Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, November 23, 2008 8:56 am, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 23.11.2008 16:16, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>>>> After changing my keys and trying to check the new ones, I was 
>>>>>> clobbered by denyhosts on the Fedora system and the symptoms were 
>>>>>> very similar. I'm seeing the same thing as Orion with my own key 
>>>>>> that I uploaded to the rpmfusion account system last week.
>>>>> Well, in your case it's something else: You are not sponsored for 
>>>>> CVS yet. I considered hitting the sponsor button, but you IIRC 
>>>>> don't maintain any packages, hence I didn't hit it. Or do you plan 
>>>>> to help out anywhere? Then let me know and I'll sponsor you.
>>>> I'm happy to help out co-maintaining things (e.g. for EL) as there 
>>>> isn't actually anything that I'm particularly interested in that's 
>>>> not already in rpmfusion. I was going to submit an xv package 
>>>> originally but I think from the wiki that there's already one there.
>>> Yeah. Do you want to take care of that for the EL branch? Then I'll 
>>> branch it.
>> Yes, I'm happy to do that.
> 
> One thing before I add your name to owners.epel.list: Can you please 
> mail the XV owner (see
> http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/owners/owners.list?root=nonfree&view=markup
> ) what his plans regarding support for EL are? Maybe he wants to take 
> care of it himself.

OK, will do.

>>>> I did struggle to find a comprehensive list of what's available 
>>>> though - is there a repoview somewhere?  If there is, I think it 
>>>> would be worth adding a link to it
>>>> from the wiki somewhere that casual browsers might find it.
>>> Yeah, as mentioned some minutes ago in
>>> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-November/002611.html 
>>> There is a lot of things that need improvement. Our docs are one area 
>>> where we really suck.
>> OK, I'll try to fix things where I see them; I trust there are no ACL 
>> restrictions like (parts of) the Fedora wiki?
> 
> No, the Wiki is open to all users that created an account.

I created a PackageList page with links to the repoview index pages for 
each repo. Some things I noticed:

1. Repoview for F10 says it's "Development" rather than "Fedora 10"
2. The updates repos for Fedora 10 and EL5 are empty and don't have 
repoview indexes. Does repoview not behave sanely in empty repos?
3. The main release repos for Fedora 8, Fedora 9, and EL5 are empty, 
with all of the content being in the updates repos. Is this ever likely 
to change?

>>>> As I'm a sponsor in Fedora I thought I may not need separately 
>>>> sponsoring for rpmfusion (the wiki isn't clear on this I think), 
>>>> which is evidently not the case.
>>> Yes and no. Yes, someone has to click the "sponsor" button in FAS 
>>> (/me normally). But that's about it if you are already a sponsor or a 
>>> normal contributor in Fedora.
>> OK, please click 
> 
> Done.

Thanks.

>> (and unblock me from denyhosts - 212.56.100.58).
> 
> Will do.

Still seem to be blocked:

[paul at metropolis nonfree]$ echo $CVS_RSH $CVSROOT
ssh :ext:pghmcfc at cvs.rpmfusion.org:/cvs/nonfree
[paul at metropolis nonfree]$ cvs co xv
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages 
if any)
[paul at metropolis nonfree]$ date --utc
Thu Nov 27 12:27:04 UTC 2008

Can you drop me a line when this should be working as I don't want to 
keep retrying - that's what got me blocked in the first place.

Cheers, Paul.