Where we are and where do we what to go?

[Hans de Goede]

Stewart Adam wrote:
> On 1/25/09 1:33 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Hi!
>>

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>> - some of our processes are afaics not documented at all or not properly
>> documented
> I've been wanting to bring this up - I think our /Contributors page 
> needs some parts rewritten, and a bit more added in certain spots. We 
> should also create a page with guidelines specific to RPM Fusion (kmods 
> should be mentioned and licensing also comes to mind so we don't have 
> libdvdcss all over again).
> 
> Also, I don't have a tremendous amount of experience using CVS so I may 
> be completely wrong, but getting the CVSROOT right is annoying; I've put 
> the following in ~/.bashrc to help:
> 
> * alias 
> plague-client-rf='PLAGUE_CLIENT_CONFIG=~/.plague-client-rpmfusion.cfg 
> plague-client'
> * alias cvsf='export 
> CVSROOT=:ext:USERNAME at cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/extras'
> * alias cvsrf='export CVSROOT=:ext:USERNAME at cvs.rpmfusion.org:/cvs/free'
> * alias cvsrnf='export 
> CVSROOT=:ext:USERNAME at cvs.rpmfusion.org:/cvs/nonfree'
> 
> Maybe we should include this too in /Contributors?
> 

Sounds like a good idea (I use something similar).

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>> - still lots of other 3rd party repos out there; users still run into
>> problems as they try to mix incompatible repos; should we actively try
>> to get more repos merged into RPM Fusion?
> I think so... One of my own thoughts about what we should be is a place 
> for users to receive high quality packages that compliment the Fedora 
> ones. IMHO, we should aim to be *the* place for users to get everything 
> they need that's not included in Fedora.
> 

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+1

Regards,

Hans