Le mercredi 27 avril 2005 Ã 15:06 -0400, Daniel Carrera a Ãcrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > And when I write developpers here I mean "the people that provide software > > to end-users". I does not mean native packaging should be taken care of by > > the people who write the extensions, just that this service must be taken > > care of by someone in the software-producing chain, in our case some group > > within oo.o, that can be partly composed by people coming from > > distributions. > > Nicolas, would you be interested in being part of this group within OOo > that turns OOo packages into native packages?
I can help getting the ball rolling. I was at a point one of the main contributors to the JPackage project (http://www.jpackage.org/, native packaging of java software - now that's a thankless task if I know one). It got endorsed by Red Hat/Novell... at about the time when I reduced my involvement, so I guess we did a lot of things right. I know pretty well how rpm works, where Red Hat/Fedora packagers hang out, what are the points that make a piece of software easy or not to package natively However with experience and years comes less free time for fun stuff, so I won't be the one doing packaging work long-term. But I know what native packagers need and the hundred small things that can ruin their day, so I can help setting up a packaging group. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
