[Mageia-dev] Dev Team Call To Action...

Cazzaniga Sandro cazzaniga.sandro at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 08:46:41 CET 2011


Le 27/01/2011 01:17, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I know -dev team doesn't exist yet, but in spite of that: some of us may be 
> needed.
> 
> Yesterday in the packaging meeting[1], misc and Stormi talked about the 3days 
> they went to a Cross-Distro App Installer Meeting[2]. As far as I understood, 
> our involvement in AppStream[3] is 4 part:
>  - mageia-app-db would like to use the metadata to display on the site.
>  - sophie would like some of the metadata too.
>  - mageia could work on making packagekit support work (it does not replace 
> rpm or urpmi in any way, it is cross-distro and just delegates the work to 
> urpmi (in our case).)
>  - mageia would then package AppStream in the distro. (Nothing is being said 
> as being used by default: Note that AppStream only does Applications, while 
> eg: rpmdrake installs packages).
> 
> Since this concerns mostly packaging, it has had a start-discussion in the 
> packagers' meeting.
> 
> However:
>  - mageia-app-db (Stormi: PHP) would like some help.
>  - sophie (Nanar: Perl) would like some help.
>  - packagekit support (misc: Perl) would need to be finalized.
> ( requires intimate knowledge of perl-URPM )
I can help for packagekit, and sophie, all of perl :)
>  - someone will have to package AppStream eventually.
> 
> 
> afaik shikamaru would help with sophie, so i think that is covered.
> 
> So this leaves:
>  - PHP for mageia-app-db
>  - Perl-URPMI related stuff for packagekit support (i might have some time for 
> this, not sure yet)
> 
> Now then, if there is anyone from -dev team who is inclined to help out, 
> please, tell us :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maarten (aka AL13N)
> 
> 
> [1]: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings#packaging_team
> [2]: http://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20110126/003418.html
> [3]: http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream/MetadataNotes


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