On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:58 +0200, Christian Parpart wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to create some ebuilds for at least one community server > (represented > by a bunch of ebuilds); > > So, I was looking for the right category for all of those ebuilds that belong > to this software, however, I didn't find a proper category for each of them > at all :( > > The software I am talking about is called YaCS (yet another community system) > and consists of the following parts (that are being split up into seperate > ebuilds):
So you're splitting this into separate ebuilds, or it comes that way from upstream? > > dev-libs/libyacsutil > - the support library (client/server) > community-libs/libyacs > - the YaCS core framework library (server) dev-libs > community-server/yacsd > - the UNIX daemon process finally serving the community net-misc, net-www > app-admin/yacsadmin > - the server console administration tool > app-benchmarks/yb > - a server benchmarking tool (think of / like: ab, the apache benchmark) > www-apache/mod_yacs > - the apache module that serves as the front-end for the end-users These look good. > community-server/yacs-meta > - the meta package for YaCS, in case everything has to be > run on a single server net-misc or net-www > Now, you see, I already proposed my (in my mind) ideal categories. > The problem are two packages I couldnn't fit into currently existing > categories. > In fact, we even haven't any community server in portage yet (and there do > exist quite a few). > So, I might have a little (continuous) brain-dead and though, would like to > be > pointed to the right category for those two packages; otherwise, I'd like to > propose those two new categories - in that case: who's the karma to initiate > them? You shouldn't create categories for anything less than about 10 to 20 ebuilds. The more the better, really. > Other community software I found (*and* are free): > * boo - http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~malsmith/products/boo/ > * yChat - http://www.ychat.org/ > * SPiN Chat System - http://chat.spin.de/en/ (dunno what kinda license it is) > > note: while browsing google, I found lots of commercial software of this > subject and just a few few (serious) open sourced ones. > > So, finally, in what category could those packages be placed in? Definitely not community-* as that is very much non-descriptive and there's no need to create 2 categories for 2 packages. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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