On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:37:58PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Alan Cox alan@redhat.com:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:41:34PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
I can see clearly that you want to automate it for your own package trees so that people can effectively subscribe to 'fetchmail of the day' or similar things. For that you might want to look at Dag Wieers stuff since he's rolling 500+ packages for several releases all the time.
Pointer?
google:dag wieers 8)
I found it, and then I found the ring he's part of (ATrpms, dag, FreshRPMS and newrpms).
This alliance is enlargening, and represents the Bazaar in contrast to fedora.us' Cathedral ;)
We believe in diversity and while we all joined fedora.us a year ago, believing the project would serve as a coordinating entity, we were finally driven away by the curse set by the current project's leadership towards a monoculture. fedora.us' leadership only recently proclaimed that rejecting cooperation with us back then and now is a good thing.
My suggestion to you would be to setup your own repository. It is quite easy, and I can help out in PM. One of ATrpms' tasks is to enforce people to create their own repos in a loosly coordinated repo maintainer forum.
Hmmm....
Perhaps these people should *be* Fedora extras? Looks to me like the community has already evolved a rather well-functioning set of apt repositories. and I like the no-single-point-of-failure aspect of what they're doing.
Thanks!
Is there some reason for Fedora not to farm out the extras job to people who seem already to be doing it competently?
Fedora is a merger of Red Hat Linux and fedora.us, carrying even fedora.us' name. Since fedora.us rejected and rejects cooperation on the grounds of "coordination being far too difficult and incurring much greater overhead", some of this may have colored off on the merged Fedora project.
Personally I think these problems are induced by fedora.us' leadership. I believe most of the other fedora.us' folks are openminded towards interrepository communication and coordination. Maybe a change in leadership will unblock the rejection attitude and brings us further along. But this is something fedora.us or Fedora needs to resolve internally.
Anyway the current setup of heretic repos is working quite well. Become a heretic yourself today! ;)