On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:34 -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> And, what «best practices» would you recommend to review, at
least in
> the form of current packages? I'm considering zarafa, xinha and wordpress.
>
> Thanks.
>
Hi, I'm Jon Ciesla, I maintain a number of web application packages for
Fedora, including drupal, moodle, gallery2, and wordpress. First off,
zarafa, zinha, and wordpress are all already in Fedora, so hopefully
that will save you duplicating effort. Secondly, a good way to learn
about packaging generally is to look at existing spec files. I'm not
holding up mine as paragons of excellence, but I'd recommend having a
look at specs for all of the above to get a feel for how they work.
Ismael was asking what current packages he should look at for guidance
and suggesting zarafa, xinha and wordpress; he wasn't proposing to
package them.
In addition to all that's been mentioned so far, I'd actually recommend
a quick look at the Mandriva web app policy:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Web_Applications . Obviously it
doesn't apply in its entirety to Fedora, but a lot of it does, it's
well-written and gives a good overview of the theory behind packaging
web apps properly. Maybe we should even adapt it for Fedora.
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