Some status stuff, and transition of fedora.us list

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Sun Feb 15 09:54:05 UTC 2004


As the fedora.us Extras merger with fedora.redhat.com draws nearer, I 
believe we should move all discussion to fedora-devel-list at redhat.com 
list rather than continue on fedora-devel at fedora.us.  The old list has 
served us well for the past year, but I believe it will help to focus 
all efforts on the new list.

fedora-announce at fedora.us will continue to operate for announcements of 
new fedora.us package releases.  fedora.us will continue to accept FC1 
and FC1.90 packages for Extras inclusion.  Later fedora.us will go into 
pure maintenance mode, existing only to support fedora.us Extras FC1 and 
earlier, and some infrastructure for the Fedora Legacy project.  The old 
Extras will be maintained in bugzilla.fedora.us and 
fedora-devel-list at redhat.com as long as the community developers still 
care about those packages.  1.90 is only temporarily at fedora.us mainly 
as a staging area for importing to fedora.redhat.com Extras CVS when it 
goes online.

http://advogato.org/person/wtogami/
I wrote some more notes and random other stuff in my new blog here.

The goal is for the FC1 to FC1.90 rebuilt packages, fixed packages, and 
a few more inclusions for Extras are to be imported into the CVS server 
when it goes online "soon".  I do not know how soon.

Please do not wait for the CVS.  Continue submitting stuff to 
bugzilla.fedora.us.  Fix and QA the packages already there.  The stuff 
already published at fedora.us stuff will probably be imported first, 
and developer track records there taken into consideration for "who to 
trust sooner" with CVS access to certain package ACL's.  (Of course many 
other well known developers in the community will be given access 
quickly if they follow the legal forms and other requirements that will 
posted when it goes live.)

It is my personal goal to have the CVS and new infrastructure being 
built at fedora.redhat.com to accelerate development and lower time 
overhead, without lowering the bar of quality that fedora.us has 
achieved during the past year.  More and better tools will need to be 
written for automated package tests, GPG signing/checking requirements, 
and other stuff in order to make these otherwise boring matters of 
procedure seemless and quick for developers.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-devel/
While on that subject, I realized I forgot to mention this earlier.  dkl 
has setup a non-production Bugzilla here where we can test Bugzilla 
concepts, and perhaps more importantly, safely test XML-RPC interfaces 
of command-line tools like the stuff ESR was working on.  I am 
personally not fully convinced that such tools will be effective, but I 
am interested to see working code prove the concept.

Otherwise... kill those FC2 bugs.  The 2.6 GNOME and kernel will be HUGE 
for us as a community in so many ways.  With your help, let us make this 
the most awesome release ever.

Warren "little more than a cheerleader" Togami





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