Fedora Bounties (seeking ideas)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/17/06, Joost Soeterbroek <fedora at soeterbroek.com> wrote:
> Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
> > Now, Google has just announced the Summer of Code 2006.  Although the Fedora
> > Project has not yet applied to participate this year, I suspect we are likely
> > to do so.  However, our Fedora Bounties list is now quite short.  We need
> > fresh ideas.  If there are any projects that you would like to see, please
> > add them to the FedoraBounties page.  These can include ideas that you may
> > have had but don't have time to work on, problems that you have encountered
> > that need attention, or tools you really wish we had.
>
> idea: YUM Fedora internal update server ('reposerver')
>
> How about a project for tools/utilities to create, maintain
> fedora/custom yum repositories behind the corporate firewall.
>
>   - local mirror for fedora repositories (core, extras etc.)
>   - Custom repos
>   - Ability to merge repos to create custom, tested 'releases' (read:
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/lpt/a/5625)
>
> Regards,
>
> Joost Soeterbroek

Yam already (supposedly) does this.

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