fedora-join October 2012

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APAC Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's wishlist clean up
by Ankur Sinha 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hi folks, I propose a simple web-FAD to clean up the package maintainer's wishlist[1]. It shouldn't really take up more than an hour if we have a few people working on this. Q. What is the wishlist? A. It's a list of packages that fedora users would like to see in the fedora repositories. Unfortunately, the list is not well maintained and thus, gives inaccurate information to package maintainers. Q. Benefits of the clean up? A. Package maintainers will benefit from a well maintained wish-list. It's a good place to direct prospective package maintainers too, when they're looking for packages to get started with. Q. How much time will it take? A. Maybe an hour and a half, two at the most. Q. What do I need to carry? A. A connection to the interweb, a web browser, IRC client. Optional but recommended: Pizza, bacon, coffee, beer, $food, $music. Q. Why APAC specific? A. Folks from one region are more likely to be available at a certain time. Any one interested is more than welcome to join in, as always. :) Q. What do I need to know? A. Reading/writing/wiki editing. Use of package manager tools, bugzilla, packagedb. Should have FAS account to be able to edit wiki. Q. What do I need to do? A. Simple workflow: - Pick up a package listed in the wishlist - Check if it is already packaged, or if a review ticket has already been filed on bugzilla - Modify wiki page accordingly. Q. What can I learn during this FAD? A. Using yum/$package_manager; using bugzilla; package maintainers process; meet people, get to know your community folks, above all, *have fun*. Q. Future plans? A. See if anyone would like to take over the responsibility of maintaining the wish list. We could even repeat the FAD every month or two. I haven't thought of a time yet. APAC folks, are you up for it? Please reply with a date and time that is convenient to you. Sometime this week, Wednesday/Thursday would be nice. Please forward the e-mail to other APAC regional mailing lists. I'm cc'ing the Join and India lists. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" Please only print if necessary. Looking to contribute to Fedora? Look here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/

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Helping with the project
by Jon Valentine 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

When I checked out the helping with project page it said skills you have or would like to learn. Does that mean that some one with little experience would still be allowed to help? I really would like to contribute in some way or another but my computer skill are limited to just simple tasks.

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new contributor
by Βασίλης Βυζάς 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hi people, I am new to all this, I am using fedora 2 years now and I am very pleased with it and I would like contribute to the project. I don't really know where and how to start though, I believe I can occupy with the bug triange and the testing for now. Any suggestions and advices are more than welcome

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More Checks
by Sourav Basu 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hi, I came up with a few more checks that I couldn't understand. Hope someone can help me out. *Package is not relocatable.(all i could find about it from wikis is that its strongly discouraged) *Useful -debuginfo package or justification otherwise. *If the source package does not include license text(s) as a separate file from upstream, the packager SHOULD query upstream to include it. Also I wanted to ask that is it necessary that the package has to be valid on every SHOULD item? Regards, Sourav

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Review Check
by Sourav Basu 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Hello all, I got stuck at a check in a review; * Package consistently uses macro is (instead of hard-coded directory names)* I cannot understand what it means. Can anyone help me out? This was a manual check left after I ran fedora-review. Regards, Sourav

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Review Process
by Sourav Basu 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi, I've been trying to do reviews informally but been unsuccessful so far. I would like to request all people who are well into reviews to create some wiki pages that give a little more detailed information about how to perform each check. It would really help novices. Regards, Sourav

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Spec
by Sourav Basu 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hi, Can anyone please tell me how to learn to read spec files? I mean any documentation regarding it where I can get more info. Regards, Sourav

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Any one interested in working on brasero?
by Ankur Sinha 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi folks! Interested in some programming? Here's a chance to work with the gnome team! From the gnome-devel list: -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen(a)gmail.com> > To: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list(a)gnome.org> > Subject: Brasero is moving > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:27:14 -0400 > > Hi, > > I've just moved brasero from the core-utilities meta-module to > applications. Brasero is a perfectly good app, but CD burning is not > really a core responsibility of the desktop nowadays. Many devices > don't even come with optical drives anymore. > > The reason I'm writing to desktop-devel-list about this minor > adjustment is that we've found out that both Brasero developers don't > have the time and inclination to maintain it, going forward. So, first > of all, many thanks to Luis and Philippe for giving us this fine > application. Now have a chance for someone who is interested in > picking up an interesting and useful application and maintain it. > There's several interesting directions in which you could take this > code base. One idea that has been floating around for a long time is > to integrate burning more closely in rhythmbox and nautilus. Or, if > you just want to give brasero a gnome3 look, our design team would > certainly be willing to provide some ideas for that. > > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list(a)gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" Please only print if necessary. Looking to contribute to Fedora? Look here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/

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Koji
by Sourav Basu 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Hello, Can anyone provide me with some details about using koji to build rpm from srpm? Is there any documentation present?? if yes please help me with it. Regards, Sourav

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Targets
by Sourav Basu 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Hello, Can anyone provide me with a list of targets used in koji? I used "koji list-targets" but my connection timed out due to slow connection. Regards, Sourav

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