A good test of the F9pre-release would be to have livna and friends ready

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Thu Apr 24 08:15:08 UTC 2008


On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:18:01 +0200, Antonio M wrote:

> I wonder where all the efforts to have an unified extra repos have
> gone.....

It's a lot of infrastructure work beyond putting some free machines on the
Internet. Even with availability of software that's used by Fedora, like
the account system, the update system, the build system(s), there's much
to do if you either want to set up a highly similar developer environment
or a custom one.

> livna seems not be updating development for a while

"Subject: rpm.livna.org Package Build Report 2008-04-23" disagrees
with that.

> And not having an unified extra repo might cause many desktop users to
> migrate elsewhere, especially for multimedia and graphic drivers.
> And generally multimedia management has to be improved, I bet if a
> newcomer might be happy in setting up his system and how long does it
> take to have a system properly working (for multimedia)?

Instead of trying to threaten the livna packagers, it would be better to
give them increased support. Too often one can read how people discuss
various problems with livna packages without submitting a bug report.  For
several packagers, their motivation comes solely from users who use their
packages and give success/failure reports.




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