Regarding the list, it has to have something for everyone. I for example, never do more than play Free Cell as a game, I do programming, but don't think gcc should be included initially. So lets look at the categories of users. a) Internet, Chat, IRC and Email Users b) Games People c) Networking People d) Music Listeners e) Graphics Users f) System Administrators / Desktop users g) Linux Maintainers. h) Children ages to 10years i) Office and Writers j) Programmers -- Web, GUI, Python, C++, C, Ruby, Other.
Essentially, the categories listed in anaconda for earlier Fedora versions seem to be the categories of interest. Please update the list by adding or removing from the above or splitting out some entries from the list. With that, in mind, I can create a spreadsheet with a heading and columns corresponding to the topics indicated. I also thought that we could also include a few small shell scripts to download one or more categories; This will help the person to save hours of searching for programs of interest. I firmly believe that the free section of rpm fusion should be included. The free section has legal FOSS programs for downloading. As well, perhaps an entry in Firefox to the rpmfusion website. The alternate distributions (debian based) already provide abilities to download non open source stuff such as codecs. Should we be asking for volunteer contributions, or leave that for Fedora 20+ ? (Could we get all the codecs for a dollar, as an example?). I frequently take courses via the web and youtube is essential to view. There is no real open source viewer for youtube. Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 50 years in Information Technology and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz www.eclipseguard.com --- On Mon, 10/29/12, Ankur Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ankur Sinha <[email protected]> Subject: [Fedora-join] APAC Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's wishlist clean up To: "Fedora Ambassadors" <[email protected]> Cc: "Fedora Join Mailing list" <[email protected]>, "Fedora India" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 29, 2012, 1:26 AM 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. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" Please only print if necessary. Looking to contribute to Fedora? Look here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/ -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ fedora-join mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-join
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