Spins & Fedora Formulas talk

[Paul W. Frields]

http://youtu.be/if5BJX9WLEc

This is a stream/recording of the Fedora Spins & Formulas talk at
FUDCon Lawrence 2013.  I thought it would be worthwhile to post here
for the benefit of the whole Spins community.

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[Brendan Jones]

On 01/19/2013 12:14 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  http://youtu.be/if5BJX9WLEc
>
>  This is a stream/recording of the Fedora Spins & Formulas talk at
>  FUDCon Lawrence 2013.  I thought it would be worthwhile to post here
>  for the benefit of the whole Spins community.
>  
I've followed this stream, but apart from the the Jam spin, none of the 
other spins are actually doing anything other than installing extra 
packages on top of a base DE. There is no QA requirement. It's already 
been covered

If we are going to be serious about formula's it needs to be post 
install. ie. dropping files in $HOME and /etc. IF in /etc, it must be 
completely obvious for maintainers of said projects ( .fformsave)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:07:17 +0100
Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 01/19/2013 12:14 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  > http://youtu.be/if5BJX9WLEc
>  >
>  > This is a stream/recording of the Fedora Spins & Formulas talk at
>  > FUDCon Lawrence 2013.  I thought it would be worthwhile to post here
>  > for the benefit of the whole Spins community.
>  >
>  
>  I've followed this stream, but apart from the the Jam spin, none of
>  the other spins are actually doing anything other than installing
>  extra packages on top of a base DE. There is no QA requirement. It's
>  already been covered 
I disagree. There's different interactions on different sets of
packages. There's different defaults. Things needed could be missing,
things unwanted could be included. 

>  If we are going to be serious about formula's it needs to be post
>
>  install. ie. dropping files in $HOME and /etc. IF in /etc, it must be 
>  completely obvious for maintainers of said projects ( .fformsave) 
Sure, there definitely needs to be clear guidelines on what it can do
or not do and how it works. 

kevin