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

Thu Jan 27 08:46:41 CET 2011

Le 27/01/2011 01:17, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> 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 )
+I can help for packagekit, and sophie, all of perl :)
+>  - someone will have to package AppStream eventually.
+> 
+> 
+> afaik shikamaru would help with sophie, so i think that is covered.
+> 
+> So this leaves:
+>  - PHP for mageia-app-db
+>  - Perl-URPMI related stuff for packagekit support (i might have some time for 
+> this, not sure yet)
+> 
+> Now then, if there is anyone from -dev team who is inclined to help out, 
+> please, tell us :-)
+> 
+> Regards,
+> 
+> Maarten (aka AL13N)
+> 
+> 
+> [1]: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings#packaging_team
+> [2]: http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20110126/003418.html
+> [3]: http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream/MetadataNotes
+
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