> > We don't have guidelines for rpm, > > We do, it's just not updated.
The mdk-rpm howto could be more precise. We can do rpms with this, of course, but, I have always found not-so-easy rpm. I had to figure by myself by loooking at others spec. > > no information is given on how to become > > mainteners. > > The information is correct (mail lenny, mail lenny, mail lenny ;-)). The > problem is there is no real procedure that is reliable. Well, I have send some spec files, they were included, but, since he didn't send me feedback, I assumed he was very busy, and was too shy to ask him. > > Of course, there is some IRC channels ( not docuemented on website ), and > > this mailling list, but, I think that some thing, such as RPM related > > question are out of topic here. > > non-basic rpm questions are not off-topic here, since they often impact on > how something is pacakged ... Well, and , what about best practices ? Some question on how to write a init script who look like a mandrake one. Last time I have done it, it was retro-engineered from others script ( and maybe that is why the package is not in contribs ( p0f-1.8.2.2-1mdk.src.rpm ) ) > > Austin and others have done a wonderful work, once they organized by > > themselves, with the survey of the Linux Audio Users Groug. > > You miss of course some of the work Austin and others do on the Mandrake > Club (on the club-volunteers list). Not a club member, sorry. > I think it may also be feasible to break some of this down into > sub-projects. Kernel/hardware, networking (devices, firewalls etc), > servers, end-user general, kde, gnome, other desktops, authentication, > laptops etc. You forget games ;-) Yes, I agree. But, this will take some time, IMHO. What about Bugzilla ? Each Bug should be forwarded to the appopriate maillings list, no ? So, some kind of filter and categorization should be done before. And,what do you think about -support list and -devel list ? A laptop support list could be interesting, on the other hand, kernel should be only devel, no ? > > I think we should at least have a mailling list to discuss about > > packaging. The pb, the best practices, and so on. > > maintainers may be the best for this, but it's not advertised, and it's > currently pretty low traffic ... Not advertised. Like a secret society ;-) And, if I remember, you can only post if you have '@linux-mandrake.com' adress ? > I would think this is a good idea. Austin noted somewhere else that > web-based solutions are not as efficient (though they are more visible) as > MLs. We can have both, to benefit of the best of the 2 world. Same as bugzilla. -- Micka�l Scherer
