Re: Looking for a "release manager" for "RPM Fusions repos for EL & EPEL"
On 26.02.2009 18:21, Adam Miller wrote:
I would be interested in participating (already package for EPEL but
know that there are some things we can't put in EPEL but would be nice
for EL to have). Unfortunately I completely lack the time to head up
something like this, but would be more than willing to lend a hand if
I am able.
RPM Fusion (and its EL repos) is a open project just like Fedora and of
course any help to improve it is highly appreciated. ;-)
RPM Fusion further uses similar rules -- round about the Fedora and EPEL
guidelines and rules with a few small exceptions/adjuments needed due to
the different nature. The infrastructure is also similar -- currently
CVS and plague just like EPEL.
So if you want to package something for EL that can't be in EPEL that
just submit it as review to bugzilla.rpmfusion.org ;-) If it's in RPM
Fusion's repos for Fedora already then just step up as maintainer. The
same rules as EPEL apply here: e.g. ask the maintainer of the Fedora
branch if he's fine with you taking care of the package in the EL branch.
So if you have a few spare cycles just look out for areas where you
think improvements are needed and "just do it" ;-)
CU
knurd
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Michel Salim
<michel.sylvan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
> <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote:
>> # CCed to epel-devel-list, as the audience there might be interested in
>> # this mail as well; nevertheless please send replies to
>> # rpmfusion-developers(a)lists.rpmfusion.org only, tia!
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> As some of you may know: RPM Fusion ( http://rpmfusion.org/ ) not only
>> supports Fedora, it also wants to support EL (e.g. RHEL and
>> clones/derivatives like CentOS) & EPEL for EL >=5 similar to how RPM
Fusion
>> supports Fedora(¹), as a lot of people asked for such a repo. The testing
>> repositories for this are online and filled with the most important RPM
>> Fusion packages for quite a while now; see
>> http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2008/11/rpm-fusion-for-el-in-early-testing....
>> for details how to enable those repos.
>>
>> In the past weeks there hasn't been much progress to move the packages to
>> the normal repos and to officially announce support for EL & EPEL. The main
>> reason for that: We have quite a few packagers that are interested in having
>> the most important RPM Fusion packages available in a RPM Fusion for EL &
>> EPEL, but afaics nobody really wants to do the surrounding work that is
>> needed. Hence RPM Fusions look for a volunteers (or maybe two) that act a
>> bit as "Release-Engineers/-Managers" for RPM Fusion's EL repos.
>>
>> The position means a bit of work, but not to much if everything works well.
>> And the latter (making sure everything works well) is basically the job
>> description already; e.g. make sure the repo as a whole work is in healthy
>> state and now and in the future makes users and contributors glad. That
>> means things like:
>>
> Are there legal aspects to be considered? I'm a non-US citizen
> residing in the US, and I'm interested in this, but would rather stay
> away from having official responsibility for packages such as
> gstreamer-plugins-{ugly,bad}.
>
> Regards,
>
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