Re: New Zenoss RPMs

[Christopher Blunck <chris zenoss com>]

We're extremely interested in making it into EPEL.  The biggest hurdle  
we face right now is not a technical one; it's a policy/procedure  
problem.  Simply put:  we (or more specifically I) am unfamiliar with  
the EPEL/Fedora/RHEL policies and procedures that are used to qualify  
a project to be included into your baseline.

I'm trying to make sure that we conform to your policies and  
procedures, and that we follow all of the guidelines the community  
offers as criteria for inclusion into the repository.  Sometimes those  
policies conflict with our existing build system (e.g. the situation  
with python 2.4).  When that comes up we (I) try to re-engineer our  
build-system to accommodate your criteria because honestly your  
procedures are usually best practices.  :)

Tomorrow I'm going to submit our .spec and .src.rpm for review.  I  
expect that as a result of that submission we'll have an opportunity  
to work through some more of details associated with being included  
into the repository.

Thanks guys for all your help!  Please give us a chance - we're just  
trying to understand what we need to do to be included in your repo! :)



-c

On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Christopher Blunck wrote:
>
> > On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >
> > > Christopher Blunck wrote:
> > > Assuming you are interested in maintaining the software package on a
> > > continuous basis within EPEL, refer
> > >
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#head-0ea98f661aff25e65d3781c334473985a0e65f55
> >
> > The Zenoss Dev Team will be responsible for maintaining the  
> > software package.
> > They will most likely ask me to be the individual responsible for  
> > doing the
> > work, but as a collective we will make sure that it is maintained  
> > on a
> > continuous basis.
>
> To be clear, I suspect many people are interested in getting this  
> package
> into epel.  Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns  
> (like
> missing deps for example)
>
> 	-Mike
>
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