My name is Juan Rodriguez, and I currently maintain a pair of packages for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. One of those packages I maintain is gnome-do, (and gnome-do-plugins), with gnome-do-docklets along the way. However, it has come to my attention that gnome-do's "docky" interface violates US Patent 7434177 [1], which in turn, crippled gnome-do by removing docky from the Fedora's package. I'd like to request for it to join the RPMFusion repositories instead.

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:45 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Hi! > > Juan Rodriguez wrote on 18.11.2009 16:32: > > My name is Juan Rodriguez, and I currently maintain a pair of packages > > for Fedora 10, 11 and 12. > > > > One of those packages I maintain is gnome-do, (and gnome-do-plugins), > > with gnome-do-docklets along the way. However, it has come to my > > attention that gnome-do's "docky" interface violates US Patent > > 7434177 [1], which in turn, crippled gnome-do by removing docky from the > > Fedora's package. > > > > I'd like to request for it to join the RPMFusion repositories instead. > > As mentioned on IRC: We iirc allow packages that got removed from > Fedora to enter RPM Fusion without additional review. If my memory > serves me correct (e.g. if nobody yells over the next 2 days) then file > a CVS reqeuest for gnome-do and gnome-do-plugins and apply for > membership in FAS. You'll find details how to do that on > http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors Just seeking clarification: does gnome-do check its plugins at runtime? If so, could we just have a gnome-do-docky package instead of having an RPM Fusion package conflict with the Fedora one? Jonathan

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Juan Rodriguez <nushio(a)fedoraproject.org <mailto:nushio@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: With that, we can continue shipping gnome-do 0.8.2 and its plugins in Fedora, and once 'Docky' is ready, we can ship that, and docklets, with full functionality, in RPMFusion instead, and Docky will be gone from gnome-do anyways. gnome-do 0.8.3.1 has been released, and after talking to the developers, I'd rather have that version on RPMFusion (With Zoom functionality), than leave it on Fedora sans-zoom. How can I start the package migration process?