[fedora-astronomy] Packaging BOINC

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mon Feb 18 17:01:16 UTC 2008


Milos Jakubicek wrote, at 02/18/2008 07:44 AM +9:00:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm -- with kind assistance of Debarshi Ray and Eric Myers -- packaging
> BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) for Fedora, 
> which is one of the proposed packages for the Fedora Astronomy spin and 
> at least one other package depends on it (namely the Einstein at GNOME).
> 
> After a discussion, we decided to ship first only the client part of
> BOINC, as there remain some unsolved problems concerning the server
> part, where we'd like to wait for upstream's decision first. And also it 
> seems that the users won't benefit so much from the server part.
> Do you find that ok?
> 
> I'd be pleased if you'd find some time to review the package
> (BZ #433187) or even sponsor me, since this is my first Fedora package.
> 
> Regards,
> Milos Jakubicek

Thank you for packaging BOINC.
I am one of the sponsor members so I can review your package, however
also as a sponsor member I am also reviewing many other NEEDSPONSOR tickets.
I hope some Fedora astronomy SIG people would pre-review your package first.

Regards,
Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>




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