Fedora Linux Format software review: January 2010

[Christopher Brown]

Hi folks,

Linux Format is a popular magazine in the U.K but which ships all over
the world. It regularly reviews interesting bits of software and I
thought:

a) It would be interesting to see how much of what they review is
included in Fedora
b) It would be a good idea to get that which is not in and/or up to date
c) If there is enough interest I would like to form a SIG to do the
monthly reviews - a kind of packaging wishlist on steroids perhaps :)

I blogged about this recently and you can read the basic idea there:

http://chruz.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/ive-got-the-music-on-my-radio/

The editor has expressed his willingness to send details of software
which they will review to us so we have a head start. I have conducted
the first review of the January 2010 issue which you can read here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFormatPackaging

There are some interesting omissions, for example Recoll, the desktop
search tool which came out ahead of Beagle and Google Desktop and
which doesn't even have a review request opened for it yet.

A few points that need mentioning:

1) I do not and have never worked for Linux Format nor has anyone I know :)
2) There may be some glaring errors - this is why this is on the wiki
so please feel free to update/change etc. For example I have not
undertaken rigorous reviews for the software's suitability.
3) This is not intended as anything other than a distillation of what
would be good to have in the repositories.

I welcome your comments as ever.

-- 
Christopher Brown

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 12/29/2009 11:20 PM, Christopher Brown wrote:
>  Hi folks,
>
>  Linux Format is a popular magazine in the U.K but which ships all over
>  the world. It regularly reviews interesting bits of software and I
>  thought:
>
>  a) It would be interesting to see how much of what they review is
>  included in Fedora
>  b) It would be a good idea to get that which is not in and/or up to date
>  c) If there is enough interest I would like to form a SIG to do the
>  monthly reviews - a kind of packaging wishlist on steroids perhaps :)
>
>  I blogged about this recently and you can read the basic idea there:
>
>  http://chruz.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/ive-got-the-music-on-my-radio/
>
>  The editor has expressed his willingness to send details of software
>  which they will review to us so we have a head start. I have conducted
>  the first review of the January 2010 issue which you can read here:
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFormatPackaging
>
>  There are some interesting omissions, for example Recoll, the desktop
>  search tool which came out ahead of Beagle and Google Desktop and
>  which doesn't even have a review request opened for it yet.
>
>  A few points that need mentioning:
>
>  1) I do not and have never worked for Linux Format nor has anyone I know :)
>  2) There may be some glaring errors - this is why this is on the wiki
>  so please feel free to update/change etc. For example I have not
>  undertaken rigorous reviews for the software's suitability.
>  3) This is not intended as anything other than a distillation of what
>  would be good to have in the repositories.
>
>  I welcome your comments as ever.
>  
blob and conquer is no longer in Fedora (and not being updated), because
it contains various non free resources. I'm working together with the
Debian packager on replacement textures, sound and music, as time allows,
until this is fixed it cannot be included in Fedora.

I've been discussing doing a "development sprint" focussing solely on
resource replacement together with the debian packager, as we are both
Dutch the idea was to get together and work an entire day on this, hopefully
making some good progress.

It would be nice if others could join in (be it virtual not necessarily
physically). So are there any takers for this ?

Regards,

Hans

[Tom Callaway]

On 12/30/2009 02:15 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>  It would be nice if others could join in (be it virtual not
> necessarily
>  physically). So are there any takers for this ? 
It might be useful to have a wiki page listing out the specific content
items which need to be replaced.

~spot

[Christopher Brown]

2009/12/31 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt;:
>  On 12/30/2009 02:15 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > It would be nice if others could join in (be it virtual not necessarily
> > physically). So are there any takers for this ? 
I am looking to generate interest in getting software that is not
included in Fedora into the repositories so to hear of this kind of
effort is wonderful. I have updated the wiki page to reflect this,
FWIW.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFormatPackaging/January2010

I am currently auditing of the next edition of the magazine and will
update the wiki with that soon.

>  It might be useful to have a wiki page listing out the specific
> content
>  items which need to be replaced. 
Yes, this would be great. I take it upstream are not willing to
re-license the sources?

-- 
Christopher Brown

[Hans de Goede]

On 12/31/2009 04:31 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>  On 12/30/2009 02:15 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > It would be nice if others could join in (be it virtual not necessarily
> > physically). So are there any takers for this ?
>
>  It might be useful to have a wiki page listing out the specific content
>  items which need to be replaced.
>  
Ok,

Wiki pages have been created for tracking this, see:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/blobwars/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/blobandconquer/index.php?title=Main...
Regards,

Hans