On 11/29/2009 11:24 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Wednesday, 2009-11-25 at 11:44 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
I must chirp in on this thread. I'm primarily a hardware and embeded assembler person, I have a limited knowledge of linux c and c++ but I noticed a while back, on this list, that the blender package wasn't being maintained properly and ended up maintaining blender and am reading this list while waiting for the latest version to build properly. I also noticed that rosegarden needed a maintainer and took that overas well. Rosegarden uses lilypond and I've taken that package over. I have really learned a lot from research on the net, asking on the opensuse packaging, build-service and programming lists and the devel lists for the packages I maintain, including handling the bugs. Basically if I can do it there must be a lot of people out there in the community that can do it as well and help to turn openSUSE into a really good distro. It's not half as hard to maintain a package as you think and if anyone would like to be pointed in the right direction to where the knowledge is, I will be happy to help.
I have another sugestion: Document the entire process. Put it somewhere in the oS web.
You say you had to read a lot of documents on many places; you could write it up together in one place so that others can read it and see if they can collaborate or not.
The downside of maintaining packages, you sometimes don't have time for anything else but http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial, which has a link to maximum rpm and http://en.opensuse.org/Packaging/SUSE_Package_Conventions are good starting points. I update those wiki's as well if necessary. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org