best practices packaging web applications

[Jon Ciesla]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:34 -0600, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>
>   
>>> And, what «best practices» would you recommend to review, at least in 
>>> the form of current packages? I'm considering zarafa, xinha and wordpress.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi, I'm Jon Ciesla, I maintain a number of web application packages for 
>> Fedora, including drupal, moodle, gallery2, and wordpress.  First off, 
>> zarafa, zinha, and wordpress are all already in Fedora, so hopefully 
>> that will save you duplicating effort.  Secondly, a good way to learn 
>> about packaging generally is to look at existing spec files.  I'm not 
>> holding up mine as paragons of excellence, but I'd recommend having a 
>> look at specs for all of the above to get a feel for how they work.
>>     
>
> Ismael was asking what current packages he should look at for guidance
> and suggesting zarafa, xinha and wordpress; he wasn't proposing to
> package them.
>
> In addition to all that's been mentioned so far, I'd actually recommend
> a quick look at the Mandriva web app policy:
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Web_Applications . Obviously it
> doesn't apply in its entirety to Fedora, but a lot of it does, it's
> well-written and gives a good overview of the theory behind packaging
> web apps properly. Maybe we should even adapt it for Fedora.
>   
Ah, I missed that detail.

-J

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