reviving Fedora Legacy

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 13:12:14 UTC 2008


Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:47:15AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> along with infrastructure, you need a release engineer.  Somebody who's
>> going to babysit the collections, do buildroot overrides to build chains
>> of packages, do package signing, urge (a) bodhi into pushing the
>> updates, making sure they get rsynced properly, dealing with bug reports
>> about broken deps, so on and so forth.  I say this, because I'm not
>> about to volunteer to do that work for you.  I say this also, because
>> trying to bring somebody in to do these things on the "LTS" section, but
>> isolate that person from the normal section is going to be difficult, if
>> we have to go that route.
> 
> And let's be clear: this alone is a full-time job. Or job and a half.

Ahh, nostalgia for the old days when Freshrpms and a few others were 
one-man shows covering most of the early RH releases and some of the 
fedoras beyond their own supported life - and inventing the way to do 
it.   Maybe you could find a third party site to take over...

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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