Hey David,
I think we should do the transition but I'm definitely not an expert. I
think that in the end the people that actually take care of the core
packages should make the decision.
However I will help if we decide to do so.
regards,
Paul
Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2009, 19:47 +0200 schrieb David Nielsen:
Dear list,
As previously mentioned, I would love for us to start work migrating
to Mono 2. This work has already been done by Ubuntu and Debian and
patches are available for nearly all packages.
The effect of this will be cutting the footprint of Mono apps by
around 20-40% in most cases and as such presents a major advantages
for our users.
Jo Shields wrote a nice post to the Ubuntu devel list explaining this
work:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-November/026872.html
Debian packages along with migration patches can be found here.
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-cli-libs/packages/
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-cli-apps/packages/
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-mono/
Now I would like to get this work into F12 which means we can start
doing it now and have it finished hopefully in time for the first
milestone release. This will take a concerted effort from everyone
currently maintaining a mono based package and the first step has to
be agreeing upon a plan of attack. I would propose the following:
1. Compile a list of packages that need patching and maintainers for
these packages.
2. Every package maintainer then extracts patches for his packages
from Debian and posts to the list for review.
3. Once every package on the list has patches available we commit them
to cvs and announce a rebuild to fedora-devel-announce.
I would like to be at 2. by June 30th, any maintainers having failed
to extract a patch and get it reviewed on the list by that day should
expect to have their packages manually altered by a provenpackager
(this is not an excuse to sit back and let me do the work though). We
should aim to be at 3. on July 15th, at which point we are up to date
with pkg-mono' current progress and can interact with them for future
steps. This gives us a month and a half to complete the work and
leaves ample room to shake out the bugs before release.
We should expect fall out, it is a major improvement and it carries
risks along with it. I hope we can all pull together resources to
handle bug reports stemming from this work.
- David
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