FEL Update: March 15, 2013

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

FEL Update: March 15, 2013

Testing
======

* mcu8051ide: integrated development enviroment for microcontrollers
based on 8051.
  http://mcu8051ide.sourceforge.net/

Updated to 1.4.7 (f17, f18).

* linsmith: A Smith charting program
  http://jcoppens.com/soft/linsmith/index.en.php

Updated to 0.99.24 (f17, f18)

* flterm: A serial terminal, and firmware download program from Milkymist.
  http://milkymist.org/3/

Updated to 1.2 (f17, f18)

* covered: Verilog code coverage analyzer.

Updated to 0.7.10 (f17, f18)

The packages have been pushed to rawhide as well as f19 branch.

Updates
=======

* Most of the packages I maintain are now in Fedora Upstream Release
Monitoring (URM).

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring

For the others not in URM, I have written to the upstream owners to
make an RSS feed available, so we can track their releases.

* minisat2 was missing header files. I had filed a request to the
maintainer to ship both the header files and libraries. This has been
fixed now.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912190

* I had written an article on "eqntott" which has appeared in March
2013 edition of Electronics For You magazine, Volume 45, Issue No. 3.

http://www.efymag.com/index.asp?id=12

Events
=====

There were three events held since mid-February 2013. The event
reports are available:

* GNUnify 2013, SICSR, Pune, India,	February 15-17, 2013

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2013-February/005356.html

* Magit @ Pune Emacs Users' Group, India, February 22, 2013

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2013-February/005359.html

* Fedora OpenStack workshop, P.E.S. College of Engineering,
Aurangabad, India, March 2, 2013

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2013-March/005360.html

Regards,

SK

[Alain PORTAL]

Le vendredi 15 mars 2013 22:26:29 Shakthi Kannan a écrit :
> Updates
> Most of the packages I maintain are now in Fedora Upstream Release
>
> Monitoring (URM).
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring
>
> For the others not in URM, I have written to the upstream owners to
> make an RSS feed available, so we can track their releases.

Please!
Instead of comfort the "Big brother" process, work on and update the packages 
you really own and let other mainteners manage their packages as they feel!

I use all software I package, I know when its are releasable!
Don't need a robot to remember me!

Regards,
Alain

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Alain Portal  wrote:
| let other mainteners manage their packages as they feel!
--

Sure. But, we would still require to know when they have made a
release. For some packages:

* The upstream source URLs have changed, or don't exist any more.

* The authors have made tarballs, but, there is no automated way to
know of newer releases.

* The sources have moved to github, but, releases or tags have not been made.

* The upstream e-mail addresses don't work anymore.

In order to keep the package releases in sync with the upstream
releases, upstream release monitoring is helpful.

---
| I use all software I package, I know when its are releasable!
--

That is your decision, and I'd leave it at that.

Cheers!

SK