[Mageia-dev] Packager meetings for tonight

Thu Feb 3 23:49:42 CET 2011

On 3 February 2011 18:06, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le jeudi 03 février 2011 à 02:44 +0100, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+>> 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.
+>
+> So it seems that my list of 20 rpms is now much lower than needed, as
+> most servers applications needed have been imported.
+>
+> The only thing left are :
+>
+> * apache ( and apache-mod_fastcgi, apache-mod_perl, apache-mod_php,
+> apache-mod_ssl, apache-mod_wsgi
+> * bugzilla
+> * icecream
+> * rails
+> * sympa
+> * mercurial
+>
+
+Taking icecream (pun included :)).
+
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+>
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+