Fedora Extras Status - WAS: Re: Self-Introduction: Jonathan Leighton

[Richard June]

>  I'm not @redhat.com but I'm involved in the process in various ways.
> Mostly by being annoying and sysadminning certain servers :)
>
> Here is a status report:
> - cristian gafton, the technical lead of the fedora project, is working
> on making the build system 'just work'. He's trying to get it right and
> happy so things do what we expect. He tends to be less talkative than a
> lot of people might want but he's doing a lot of head down work that,
> quite frankly, is painfully complex to do right.
>
> - cvs is open, commits are occurring, websites are up and people are
> fixing up packages. It's a bright new day that's vaguely foggy. :)
>
> - many of the packages have been built and a pre-extras repository will
> probably be unleashed on the unwitting public very soon. (mark my words)
>
> - the other infrastructure bits that need to be ready first:
>   - 'extras' gpg key for signing packages needs to be made
>   - bugzilla needs to know about extras and about the package owners
>   - extras needs to be dealt with vis-a-vis the mirroring systems
>   - some release timing issues need to get worked out.
>
> There is a smallish group of not-terribly-talkative people working on
> these problems and, believe it or not, they're making some headway.
>
> I'll post more as I know it/come across it. And I'll post more and a
> little more detail soon.
helps is somewhat speculative, but I do appreciate the info. I'm aware of the 
trouble that goes into setting up a build environment (at least my troubles 
with it).

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