> Maybe there should just be a Wiki for discussions of efforts to port specific > packages, with a Wiki page for each package and a few pages about how to work > with packages, release packages, compilation hints, problems common to many > packages with their common solution, etc. I could go there and look for the > kdeaddons page; if it wasn't there, I could start one and say what problems I > ran into; if it was there, I could see if other people had hit the same > problem and whether they had gotten past it, etc. Or even just a text file > somewhere with entries such as "kdeaddons: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2005-05-12; > tried to compile and ran into too many C++ errors; gave up." >
Debian has the wnpp virtual package which people can file bugs against to request packages etc. Since the "bug" then has a number, information regarding the package can be posted to that bug, and people can discuss their efforts. Presumably this could be done with fink's package request tracker as well. Your wiki idea is another possibility... which solution is better probably depends on the etiquette regarding the use of the trackers. Any good solution here would have to be easily searchable, or possibly sorted by date of last update (for the tracker) or something. For the package request tracker you can tell if the "bug" has been assigned to someone... if so, presumably that person would be a good one to talk to. Scott ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ids93&alloc_id281&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
