On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:48:13PM -0500, David Nalley wrote:
The packaging guidelines, are honestly sooo voluminous, and also so
scattered, that it's an interesting problem for new packagers, and the
getting started as a packager documentation is the same way. Much of
that could be improved (and at one time there was an effort going on
towards that end.) but it will never become 'easy'.
Putting a plug in, I want to find some ways to improve the organization of
the Guidelines at the Toronto FUDCon. details here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009_Packaging_Guidelines_H...
If you'd like to add something about what you see as failing in your
particular review and possible solutions, that would be great! (Maybe we
need a glossary of terms. Maybe we need to have an additional Link for
a koji scratch build and an explanation of what that is... brainstorm away!)
In the end, don't
hesitate to ask for help or say you don't know. Part of the process is
learning how to become effectively lost. Failure, within Fedora is OK,
and even encouraged, provided you correct it and learn from it.
+1
-Toshio