Pode deixr que eu faço a tradução.
2009/3/3 Henrique Junior <henriquecsj(a)gmail.com>
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> Ninguém, pessoal?
>
> 2009/3/2 Henrique Junior <henriquecsj(a)gmail.com>:
> > Prezados amigos, recentemente escrevi uma matéria sobre o desktop
> > Enlightenment para a Revista Fedora Brasil e o artigo acabou tomando uma
> > proporção maior do que o esperado. Troquei alguns e-mails o empacotador
> > responsável pelo E17 no Fedora e conforme a conversa foi evoluindo ele
> > concordou em nos escrever um pequeno texto sobre o repositório e sobre
> > como
> > iniciou os trabalhos de empacotamento.
> > O Professor Gregory Kriehn leciona no curso de engenharia elétrica no
> > CalTech e eu gostaria de pedir que algum dos nossos tradutores mais
> > experientes assumisse o texto (que segue abaixo). Claro, tanto o nome do
> > autor quanto o do tradutor constarão na edição.
> >
> > Grande abraço a todos
> >
> > --------------------------------------
> > A number of years ago I sought to gather all of the personal notes that
> > I had developed with respect to RedHat and Fedora Linux into a
> > comprehensive set of online notes. The notes were developed primarily
> > as a way to have a centralized location for me to remember how to
> > perform various tasks in Linux, although I found that people from all
> > over the world also benefited from them. Sometime after I started doing
> > this, Stanton Finley retired his Fedora Core notes, and so I became one
> > of the new destinations for HOWTOs with regard to Fedora.
> >
> > Over the years I have also became increasing frustrated with both Gnome
> > and KDE. I feel that the Gnome developers have dumbed down the Windows
> > Manager to the point that no one is allowed to (or able to) configure
> > anything, and I have always found KDE too buggy for my personal taste.
> > Between Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 5, I looked for an alternative
> > Windows Manager that balanced issues such as speed and simplicity with
> > ease of use and an ability to configure it to my liking until I came
> > upon Didier Casse's E17 Alpha packages (Fedora Core 5'ish). For a span
> > of about 2 years I worked with Didier off and on to help debug and
> > configure some of his packages until he became too busy to keep up his
> > repository. He eventually passed the torch onto me, and so I decided to
> > create my own repository to keep up the tradition of offering updated
> > monthly E17 snapshots.
> >
> > More recently, Enlightenment has moved from CVS to SVN, and has
> > undergone some fundamental changes with the deprecation of Epeg and the
> > introduction of the Eina library, and so it took considerably longer
> > than I would have liked to develop a comprehensive set of Enlightenment
> > packages for Fedora 10. This was complicated by the introduction of
> > Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) into the Fedora Updates
> > Repository, in addition to Enlightenment itself. I originally had
> > planned on removing any packages that had made it into the Fedora
> > Repository to avoid conflicts and slowly phase out the Kriehn Repository
> > once E17 reached a point of stable maturity. However, I have found that
> > the E17 packages currently within the Fedora Repository are based upon
> > an old set of CVS packages, and that the Fedora maintainer has become to
> > busy to update or maintain them. Because the older packages conflict
> > with the newer code in SVN (primarily as a result of the new Eina
> > library), I have therefore decided to continue to offer a full set of
> > E17 packages that include the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries,
> > Enlightenment and its add-on Modules, as well as a number of other
> > Enlightenment Applications that are at various degrees of maturity (or
> > immaturity, whatever the case may be) within the Kriehn Repository.
> > To avoid conflicts with the Fedora Repository, I have ensured that the
> > version numbers on my packages are greater than what is offered in
> > Fedora Updates. This way, if you try to install an Enlightenment
> > package, it will default to the Kriehn Repository opposed to Fedora
> > Updates.
> >
> > Why not just become a Fedora maintainer myself? Well, I hack code in my
> > spare time and use Linux because it increases my productivity as an
> > Engineering Professor, but I found Fedora's Packaging Guidelines are too
> > obtuse and time consuming for me to become a full time maintainer. I am
> > afraid that the same thing would happen to me as what happened to the
> > old Fedora Enlightenment Maintainer, and as a result, E17 packages would
> > languish and die once again on Fedora. I gave "Becoming a Fedora
> > Maintainer" a trial run and helped push xosview back into the distro,
> > but simply found the process too convoluted and involved. I understand
> > the need for exacting guidelines -- it has helped Fedora become a world
> > class Linux distribution in recent years, but I simply do not have the
> > time to officially maintain 80 Enlightenment packages for Fedora. In a
> > similar manner, I looked toward RPMFusion, but found that they have
> > decided to adopt similar Packaging Guidelines as Fedora. As a result, I
> > find it simplest to run my automated scripts that will pull source from
> > SVN, package them into tarballs, create and sign the RPMS, and upload
> > them to my server. I have tried to adhere as closely as possible to
> > Fedora's SPEC Guidelines wherever possible, and have had great help from
> > Vasile Chelban in bringing them into proper shape with mock. Vasile has
> > also been kind enough to mirror my repository and create x86_64 packages
> > from the i386 packages I have developed and automatically rsync them
> > back to my server. So far it has been a great working relationship.
> >
> > We are currently looking at creating a local SVN directory where we can
> > place the build scripts and the SPEC files into in order to provide more
> > robust (and a bit more timely, perhaps) E17 packages. So the future of
> > the Kriehn Repository and E17 look bright, even though it got off to a
> > rocky and delayed start with respect to Fedora 10. Thanks for your
> > patience!
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior
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