Nathanael Noblet wrote:
Hello,
So I've been toying with the idea of getting more involved with
fedora. Up till now if there has been a bug or other issue, i'll file
a bug or simply get the srpm and try to update it to a newer version,
or create my own specs / rpms when they don't already exist. Lately
I've figured that I should get more involved with some of the packages
that I use or anything like that. The packaging guidelines kinda
describe entry to the packager group as being done via new packages.
I've offered to try to help on some recently orphaned packages. Though
that may be more work than just submitting a new package.
So after all that rambling, I'm wondering about the two following
pieces of software.
Apple's Calendar Server. It runs using python 2.5 or greater (I've
installed it on a F11 machine and it work well). I've started looking
at some of its dependancies. 90% of them are in fedora already, and of
the ones in F11, only one if I remember correctly isn't at the version
it requires). It seems like a great addition to Fedora if you ask me.
So basically it would require two new packages, and an update to one
other package (libevent) which is a minor version bump it seems if at
all needed.
I'd love to see a calendar server in Fedora, though TBH when I looked at
Apple's long ago it was a bit daunting; it seemed like one of those
cross-platform hacks that is very much -not- nicely integrated with the
OS (I don't remember the details; weird file hierarchies or private
copies of libraries or ...?). Maybe it's better now. But if not, that
may be a hiccup. But I'd say give it a shot. I'd help test it. :)
FWIW I looked at DAViCal (
http://rscds.sourceforge.net/) too and it
seemed like an interesting possibility as well.
-Eric