[Mageia-dev] Dev Team Call To Action...

Thu Jan 27 04:16:47 CET 2011

2011/1/27 Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>:
+> Hi,
+>
+> I know -dev team doesn't exist yet, but in spite of that: some of us may be
+> needed.
+>
+> Yesterday in the packaging meeting[1], misc and Stormi talked about the 3days
+> they went to a Cross-Distro App Installer Meeting[2]. As far as I understood,
+> our involvement in AppStream[3] is 4 part:
+>  - mageia-app-db would like to use the metadata to display on the site.
+>  - sophie would like some of the metadata too.
+>  - mageia could work on making packagekit support work (it does not replace
+> rpm or urpmi in any way, it is cross-distro and just delegates the work to
+> urpmi (in our case).)
+>  - mageia would then package AppStream in the distro. (Nothing is being said
+> as being used by default: Note that AppStream only does Applications, while
+> eg: rpmdrake installs packages).
+>
+> Since this concerns mostly packaging, it has had a start-discussion in the
+> packagers' meeting.
+>
+> However:
+>  - mageia-app-db (Stormi: PHP) would like some help.
+>  - sophie (Nanar: Perl) would like some help.
+>  - packagekit support (misc: Perl) would need to be finalized.
+> ( requires intimate knowledge of perl-URPM )
+Getting familiar with package kit is on my todo list, dunno much about
+urpmi support
+and if there's anything lacking or not. Lemme know if you have any questions on
+perl-URPM or if there's any specific issues, I can likely fix them
+within short time. :)
+
+--
+Regards,
+Per Øyvind
+