[Mageia-dev] Packager meetings for tonight

Thu Feb 3 02:44:38 CET 2011

Le mercredi 02 février 2011 à 17:26 +0100, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Hi,
+> 
+> Next meeting will happen tonight on #mageia-dev at 20h UTC.
+> 
+> Quick proposal for agenda ( the meeting must be quick ) :
+> - review of the task distributed last week
+> ( http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2011/mageia-dev.2011-01-26-20.03.html )
+> - proposal on what should be imported in priority ( and distribution of
+> the work ) 
+
+So as discussed tonight ( but if you couldn't be present at the meeting,
+do not hesitate to express yourself now ), we proposed to have some
+order in the import of rpm ( ie avoid the resulting anarchy due to lack
+of process for bootstrap ). 
+
+In order to start by something tangible and easy to manage, let's take a
+concrete case. The sysadmin team discussed to use mageia on the servers
+( once the stable release is out ie, not now ) for obvious reasons of
+dogfooding. But for this, we will have to import the needed rpms. I
+extracted from puppet logs the lists of rpm, and I have a list of the
+major component needed.
+
+The rule would be to take 1 and only 1 rpm ( or family ) at the time, to
+make sure it work fine ( ie, compile for the moment, and also install ),
+to make sure the package is cleaned ( ie, patchs sent upstream,
+commented, etc ), and to make sure that everybody can find something to
+do. 
+
+And that of course requires to do the same for missing BuildRequires,
+and Requires ( but since lots of rpm have been imported without being
+fully cleaned, and since there is now a fast web interface for svn,
+people have no excuse to not check ). 
+
+I will place the list on the wiki tomorrow, and people wishing to work
+on importing a rpm should add their name/login/whatever after the rpm,
+and then to work on it. If there is already someone working on a rpm,
+just take another one, or try to work with this person.
+
+Of course, nothing prevent people from working on something else if they
+wish, but this list of package are IMHO the one that we are sure to find
+testers ( aka sysadmins ). Moreover, as most if not all are servers, or
+at least, stuff without graphical interface, they will be ready to be
+tested once the mirror will be ready. 
+
+Once this list wil be cleared, we will likely be ready on more
+consequent bunch of rpms ( like kde, gnome, xfce, etc, etc ).
+
+So if someone has remarks, or questions, do not hesitate.
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+