bugzilla triage madness :-/
Stephen John Smoogen
smooge at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 14:55:56 UTC 2008
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 19:28 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > > Plague is unmaintained upstream as well. The only reason it's kept
> > > around is because we can't build EPEL in Koji, which I hope to have
> > > fixed this summer. After that, plague will be removed from the distro
> > > entirely. Would that make you feel better?
> >
> > What about third-party repositories like rpmfusion? AFAICT, rpmfusion decided
> > to use Plague. And looking at the current design of the 2 tools, Plague looks
> > much more appropriate for a third-party repository to me, compared to Koji
> > which wants to "own" the entire distribution, requiring to import all the base
> > Fedora packages. Of course, the work to make Koji suitable for EPEL may well
> > make this a non-issue, but right now it is something to consider.
>
> Then rpmfusion should take upstream ownership of it.
>
Who is upstream for plague? I know that there are several groups that
are still using it and if its upstream is looking for a new owner..
would probably take it over versus 'forking' it.
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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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