Hello all, I was curious what everyone's thoughts would be on creating a xfce-sig-packagers group (or some similar name) where everyone that's a member is able to commit to all xfce packages DistGit (at least in rawhide, but possibly in stable releases also if others think that's a good idea). My main motivation for this is to try and increase collaboration and share workload between members of the XFCE SIG who handle packaging and maintenance of different components. Also, I hope that this will motivate others to branch out and get involved in other areas of XFCE if they are interested.
I'm not entirely sure what all we'll need to do to accomplish this if everyone is on board but I do know that there are similar SIG packaging groups like this for language stacks, desktop(gnome), and kde so I suspect we can request a similar setup from the appropriate group.
Questions, comments, and snide remarks are welcome. :)
-AdamM
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On 03/20/2015 01:26 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
Hello all, I was curious what everyone's thoughts would be on creating a xfce-sig-packagers group (or some similar name) where everyone that's a member is able to commit to all xfce packages DistGit (at least in rawhide, but possibly in stable releases also if others think that's a good idea).
This might be a good think assuming we have sufficient number of folks (in the packagers group) interested. Even if not, testing and patches (when things break) would be pretty nice undoubtedly. :)
I'm not entirely sure what all we'll need to do to accomplish this if everyone is on board but I do know that there are similar SIG packaging groups like this for language stacks, desktop(gnome), and kde so I suspect we can request a similar setup from the appropriate group.
If there are enough people (in the packagers group) willing to participate we could do this using pkgdb group maintainership. There may be better ways that I am not aware of though.
My two cents. :) Mukundan.
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:14:55 -0500 Mukundan Ragavan nonamedotc@fedoraproject.org wrote:
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On 03/20/2015 01:26 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
Hello all, I was curious what everyone's thoughts would be on creating a xfce-sig-packagers group (or some similar name) where everyone that's a member is able to commit to all xfce packages DistGit (at least in rawhide, but possibly in stable releases also if others think that's a good idea).
This might be a good think assuming we have sufficient number of folks (in the packagers group) interested. Even if not, testing and patches (when things break) would be pretty nice undoubtedly. :)
I'm not entirely sure what all we'll need to do to accomplish this if everyone is on board but I do know that there are similar SIG packaging groups like this for language stacks, desktop(gnome), and kde so I suspect we can request a similar setup from the appropriate group.
If there are enough people (in the packagers group) willing to participate we could do this using pkgdb group maintainership. There may be better ways that I am not aware of though.
I'm not sure there's enough of us to make this worthwhile, but if you all want to, we can.
I guess I'd say as it is now it's not worth it, but if we pick up a few more packagers who want to help out accross the entire Xfce package set it would probibly be worth it.
kevin
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