Proven testers for Lua update

[Tim Niemueller]

On 31.03.2011 11:01, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> On 03/30/2011 11:48 AM, Tim Niemueller wrote:
>> Hi fellow Fedorans.
>>
>> I'd like to push a minor update of Lua, which incorporates a small
>> bugfix patch, and some cosmetic fixes to the builds script. First
>> testing by a proven tester has been done successfully, but I need more
>> testing to be able to push it, please have a look, try it and comment:
>> ) 
>>From my reading of the update policy, actually only a normal karma is
> needed (+1 from proventester, +2 total). But I've tested the package
> now, all seems in order.
> 
> Incidentally, any interest in getting Lua's Rocks deployment system
> integrated into Fedora? Been meaning to get this done for a while,
> really needs to get it off the ground. Ideally it should be like Python
> eggs and Ruby gems -- we need our Lua modules to ship .rocks files so
> that these modules don't get a duplicate installation in the user's home
> directory.
> 
> I'll whip up a Feature page (probably we'll announce it for F-16) if
> there's an interest.

I never liked these specific deployment systems and rather just built
RPMs in the first place, but if someone is willing to do and *maintain*
it: go for it!

I'll recall the F13 update, no one seems to be willing to test it, it's
EOL soon and nobody shouted loud enough for it.

	Tim

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