[fab] Integrate Legacy

[Max Spevack]

Short answer: go for it.

Long answer: see Board meeting minutes from today.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2006-06-06

--Max

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:

> I would really like to see some movement on integrating Legacy into the
> existing Fedora infrastructure.  What does this involve?
>
> * Plague instance for Legacy.
>  - Building of RHL7.3/9 packages(?), FC1->3
>
> * CVS tree to use
>  - copies of current FC (and RHL?) trees to commit changes to
>  - Support in account system for ACLs
>
> * Publishing software
>  - Currently we push to download.fedoralegacy.org in our own tree
> format.  We should push to download.fedora.redhat.com and use the real
> mirror system
>  - Sign+Push software and users.  A few people know the Legacy key and
> could push.
>
> Some of these can be done in stages.  Currently we don't use CVS to
> manage our changes (ick) but we could get a Plague instance up and
> running prior to having CVS, and that could be added later.  Likewise we
> could continue to hand sign/push our packages to our current mirror
> structure before moving into download.fedora space.
>
> There are some questionmarks regarding RHL support.  Personally I would
> really like to see Legacy's support of RHL die with FC6 Test2.  Then we
> would only have to worry about building FC3+FC4 packages in the Legacy
> space.  This would make it much easier for CVS, for the build system,
> for the publishing tool, etc...  However there is bound to be resistance
> to dropping said support.  However, we could also keep that separate.
> Continue to support RHL through our existing build system, while we move
> the FC support to the Fedora infrastructure.  Lots of options there, and
> headaches there.
>
> Anyway, I'd like a clear Go Ahead from the Board to start talking to the
> folks necessary to make these things happen.
>

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