[fedora-india] APAC Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's wishlist clean up

Akshay Vyas akshayvyas29 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 15:57:58 UTC 2012


>Hi folks,

>I propose a simple web-FAD to clean up the package maintainer's
>wishlist[1]. It shouldn't really take up more than an hour if we have a
>few people working on this.

>Q. What is the wishlist?
>A. It's a list of packages that fedora users would like to see in the
>fedora repositories. Unfortunately, the list is not well maintained and
>thus, gives inaccurate information to package maintainers.

>Q. Benefits of the clean up?
>A. Package maintainers will benefit from a well maintained wish-list.
>It's a good place to direct prospective package maintainers too, when
>they're looking for packages to get started with.

>Q. How much time will it take?
>A. Maybe an hour and a half, two at the most.

>Q. What do I need to carry?
>A. A connection to the interweb, a web browser, IRC client. Optional but
>recommended: Pizza, bacon, coffee, beer, $food, $music.

>Q. Why APAC specific?
>A. Folks from one region are more likely to be available at a certain
>time. Any one interested is more than welcome to join in, as always. :)

>Q. What do I need to know?
>A. Reading/writing/wiki editing. Use of package manager tools, bugzilla,
>packagedb. Should have FAS account to be able to edit wiki.

>Q. What do I need to do?
>A. Simple workflow:
>- Pick up a package listed in the wishlist
>- Check if it is already packaged, or if a review ticket has already
>been filed on bugzilla
>- Modify wiki page accordingly.

>Q. What can I learn during this FAD?
>A. Using yum/$package_manager; using bugzilla; package maintainers
>process; meet people, get to know your community folks, above all, *have
>fun*.

>Q. Future plans?
>A. See if anyone would like to take over the responsibility of
>maintaining the wish list. We could even repeat the FAD every month or
>two.

>I haven't thought of a time yet. APAC folks, are you up for it? Please
>reply with a date and time that is convenient to you. Sometime this
>week, Wednesday/Thursday would be nice.

>Please forward the e-mail to other APAC regional mailing lists. I'm
>cc'ing the Join and India lists.


Hi Ankur sinha

Do we have any criterian on that like which packages should be removed
or kept in the wish list


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Akshay vyas
(http://www.gofedora.in)


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