Hi Chris,
Thanks for the reply and the welcome! I've submitted a package review through
Fedora BugZilla and I'm in the process of being sponsored so I can get Barry
into the Fedora repo. That's fine by me if you'd like to consider me the
official Fedora contact person for Barry. I've made considerable changes to
your spec file so I'll follow up with a patch file once I'm done with the
package review process.
Chris
From: Chris Frey
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 1:59 AM
To: Barry project development discussion
Subject: Re: [Barry-devel] FC10 & Barry -- USB Charging
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 08:49:05PM -0500, Christopher Stover wrote:
>
> Also, provided the USB charging is working well, is there a way I
> can submit the fc10 RPMs to SourceForge so others can download them?
> Is there anything that would prohibit me from disbursing the RPMs to
> RPM Fusion (the new repo for FC10)?
Hi Christopher, welcome to Barry!
Thanks for building these packages on FC10. The best way to help with
binary packages is to send me (via the mailing list) patches to the
rpm/barry.spec file for any new platforms you build RPMs on.
As for uploading to Sourceforge, binaries are harder to verify than source
code, so for security reasons, upload access to sourceforge has been
historically restricted to me.
Source code is done primarily through git these days, for which there are
multiple ways to contribute source: mailing list patches, the mob branch
on repo.or.cz, or cloning your own git repo and asking me to pull. So
Barry hasn't needed an open Sourceforge account system.
However, there is nothing stopping you from distributing RPMs of Barry
for RPM Fusion / FC10 as long as you follow the GPL, of course. I would
highly encourage inclusion of Barry in distros. So far, Mandriva and Debian
are on board. Are you a Fedora package maintainer? Should I count you
as the official Fedora contact person for Barry?
I'd like to see Barry included as a full part of Fedora. According to the
FAQ for RPM Fusion, Fusion "distributes packages that have been deemed
unacceptable to Fedora due to licensing or patent issues."
(http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ) I would hope that Barry is acceptable to
the main Fedora tree, considering it is licensed under the GPL, but that
is not my call.
So I'd prefer to register a request with Fedora to include Barry in their
main source tree. (I understand this process includes filing a bug, and
either
volunteering to maintain the package, or hoping someone else does.)
If that is not possible, I'd then gladly accept inclusion in RPM Fusion.
Comments welcome.
Thanks,
- Chris
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