[Design-team] Forming Design Team SIG

Luya Tshimbalanga luya at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 20 03:02:04 UTC 2013


SIG stands for Special Interest Group[0]. As the title speaks itself, it 
is about forming a group specialized at maintaining packages related to 
Design. KDE, Scientific, Robotics, Fonts[1] groups have them so why not 
Design Team?
The reasons are:
- to list and track design related application not included in Fedora 
repository
- to make like of packagers easier when one of them went missing or on 
vacation.
- to consolidate all building in a single repository say 
design-team.fedorapeople.org where development version of main tools 
like Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus without disturbing the main repository 
similar to Ubuntu PPA
- to gain more contact with upstream by helping them tracking bugs, 
improve their software and provide a guideline of writing a good spec file
- Better interaction with Fonts and Desktop SIG.
- to maintain the list of Design packages in comps.xml for users 
installing a different desktop environment i.e. KDE and such.

Feedback welcome.

Ref:
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[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs?rd=SIGs
[1]: https://fonts.fedoraproject.org

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Luya Tshimbalanga
Graphic & Web Designer
E: luya at fedoraproject.org
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