Hi there First packagers meeting happened on last wednesday (http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2010/mageia-dev.2010-12-15-19.30.html logs). Here are the big lines:
- Attendees: we were about 25. In order to inform all people registered on wiki, a mail will be sent to all list so that they can be aware of all this. So you may receive it even if you were in meeting. - Registration: you can now find a more complete registration table if you wish to contribute as packagers in Mageia. For those already registered please complete missing items so that we can organize as well as possible coming work. See http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packaging#list_of_registered_people - Internal organization: packagers meeting will happen every wednesday at 20h UTC on #mageia-dev, it should be rather short (about 1/2h, not more than 1h). Topics will have to be defined the day before the latest. A longer meeting will be organized on first wednesday of each month, dedicated to more strategic decisions. mageia-dev mailing-list is the official one for packagers so we try to forward any general topics to mageia-discuss mailing-list. See http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packaging#mailing-lists. - Packagers representatives: we will have to vote for 2 representatives for packagers. This will be done on a separate ML thread. - Becoming Mageia packager: people having Mandriva packager account will get Mageia packager account as soon as build system is ready. Non Mandriva packagers but having experience with RPM will be mentored as a priority sot that they get their own account as soon as possible and start mentoring also if they are ok. Beginners are welcome and can already start to get familiar with RPM packaging, ask for help on mailing-list or on IRC. - Mentoring process: if you are interested in working on it, you can join here (http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=packaging#writing_mentoring_process) to help on writing Mageia mentoring process. Main goal is to make life easier and formalize process to become Mageia official packager. - Mageia packaging policies: we will start with Mandriva Linux policies, no need to reinvent wheel. But we will take also this opportunity to check existing one, clean it and maybe complete it or add new one. See Shikamaru post about this (https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101216/001742.html). Contributers welcome ! Cheers -- Anne http://www.mageia.org
