Please create CVS branch requests

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 14.10.2007 10:47, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

>> Kevin setup CVS (¹). It's mostly ready but not usable yet as it needs to
>> be tied into the FAS, on which thias had been working on iirc.
>>
>> But there is one thing package maintainers can do already *now*: prepare
>> the CVS branch requests for your packages. We'll use the
>> Fedora-old-style format that is explained at
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure?action=recall&rev=47
>>
>> Put your request on http://rpmfusion.org/BranchRequests please. Once the
>> CVS is finally ready we can just work through the queue and finally
>> start -- that saves a bit of time.
>>
>> Please make sure you put your packages in the proper section -- e.g.
>> software that is open source software according to the Fedora guidelines
>> in the "free" section and everything else in the "nonfree" section.
> I'm going to file branch requests for all mine.

thx; just wondering: should we add links to the merged SRPMs, too? Then
I would volunteer to import them and build then, wich should speed
things up.

> I will assume for now that software which cannot go to Fedora for other reasons 
> then patents, like the DMCA (emulators) will go to non-free.

Not sure -- likely needs to be decided on a case by case basis (but I'm
not familar with the leagal stuff around emulators). But nonfree is
likely the safest bet -- I expect moving a package from nonfree to free
alter shouldn't be a big deal.

Cu
knurd