Thoughts on a NodeJS packaging group

[Robert Van Voorhees]

Hi guys, short-time lurker interested in getting more actively involved in
helping the Fedora community.

Regarding updating NodeJS -- there's a group called NodeSource that has
been actively maintaining the latest versions of NodeJS in RPM format.
Should we be leveraging their work, and incorporated that into the upstream
repository, or do we need to go about it another way?  I've been running
their repository for the last few months without any problems; however,
I'll admit I'm using npm install instead of dnf install nodejs-* for all my
packaging needs.

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Robert Van Voorhees

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 6:51 AM Jared K. Smith <jsmith at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Parag Nemade <pnemade at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I also see most of the people participating this discussion are already
>> provenpackagers so they should be already having powers to update nodejs
>> packages in Fedora.
>
>
>
> That's a good point, and one that I've neglected to bring up.  I'm a
> provenpackager, but until now I've hesitated to just go updating other
> people's packages without a very compelling reason.  I know there's not a
> lot of technical difference between me updating a package as a
> provenpackager vs. me updating a package as part of a NodeJS packaging
> group -- but from a perception standpoint, I feel there's a difference.
> Maybe it's just me though...
>
> Along that same vein, though, I'll ask the question -- are people OK with
> me going through and updating some packages to the latest releases
> (assuming that the latest release still works on our current version of
> Node itself, and that it doesn't break the dependency chain on other
> packages)?
>
> For example, the COPR repo I mentioned earlier has updates to probably
> around 100 or so NodeJS packages in Fedora that I'm working on as part of
> my efforts to get some IoT tools packaged for Fedora.  My selfish
> short-term goal is to get the apps packaged up in the COPR repo, but the
> longer-term goal is to get the updated packages pushed back into Fedora so
> that the apps themselves are packaged directly in Fedora.  Also, I'm keen
> to get NodeJS 4.2 (LTS) packaged and working on Fedora, but that's probably
> a topic best suited to another mailing list thread.
>
> --
> Jared Smith
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