On 03/17/2014 05:55 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 17:34 +0100, Axb wrote:
Are you volunteering to manage this?
Every distro/OS has a packaging team. It would make more sense for those
interested, to join your distro_du_jour project and work with them. Why
would the SA project want to reinvent the wheel?
I might - if I understood RPM creation, but learning about that is still
on my todo list.
I've recently noticed that there are a few applications that are now
running their own repositories (Google Earth and Adobe Flash) or are
distributed through 3rd party repositories (vlc on RPMfusion) and
thought I should mention it as a possible way of shortening the time
between a new version becoming available and it appearing as part of the
various Linux distros. Personally, I'm not bothered either way: 3.3.2
does what I need and so I'm quite happy to wait for 3.4.0 to appear in
the Fedora repositories.
Apologies if I ruffled any feathers - that wasn't my intention.
no apologies needed - was just trying to make a point about redundancy
of effort.
As our favourite "Cat-Herder-in-Chief" mentioned, dev resources/time are
finite yet fresh talent commited to the project is always welcome.
