On Nov 1, 2003, Warren Togami <warren(a)togami.com> babbled:
With limited engineers and far too much work to do of much higher
importance (i.e. NPTL, XFree86 drivers and a thousand other things), you
simply cannot expect something like enlightenment to get the necessary
time and care needed for a quality package.
But you still can get support from the Enlightenment team! I currently use
Enlightenment and I'm often on their mailing list. I can tell you that
they (and including me!) can provide full support for anybody who use
E desktop on any distro. I currently use RH9 and willing to help anybody
who has problems with E on RH9.
RH dislikes the idea of putting apt pkglists on official mirrors
because
they do not ship apt. I personally am unhappy about this, however I
accept their decision.
I'm unhappy too ;-p
In the future there may be a resolution to this problem. Currently yum,
apt, and up2date developers are working on standardizing a header format
so all three clients use the same metadata. That way it doesn't matter
what client you use, they are all officially supported by all mirrors.
I don't know the status of this development though.
Cool!
> 3. Why don't we have a lot of packagers available at hand
compared to
> Debian? I think all of you are aware that the apt of Debian covers a wider
> range of packages than Fedora/RH.
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageSubmissionQAPolicy
Fedora Project needs to create our own community of packagers. Read
this and get started by doing the Self-Introduction post. Then look at
many examples of other people's package submissions, then submit your
own packages.
Thanks for the tip. But I wonder why they don't put it on
http://fedora.redhat.com
http://www.fedora.us/QA
Look here to see all current packages that are in QA. We need more
people to do quality QA analysis for these packages to become published.
>
> Debian also have several maintainers which takes care of all their
> packages issues. Why don't we have the same concept in Fedora?
>
What do you mean by "packages issues"?
Meaning: if you have problems with let's say Eterm on Debian. Then Michael
Jennings (Author of Eterm) will not be the one that you bug for your
Debian problems but you will rather bug the maintainer of Eterm on Debian
(Currently: Laurence J. Lane <ljlane(a)debian.org>--- Well i think so!) to
solve your package issues!
With kind regards,
Didier
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