Regarding Extras package announcements

Nils O. Selåsdal NOS at Utel.no
Wed Sep 22 11:21:32 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:30, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:00:46 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> > Michael Schwendt wrote :
> > 
> > > So, what and how do we announce? For reference, the _old_ list
> > > archives are here:
> > > http://www.fedora.us/pipermail/fedora-package-announce/
> > > 
> > > Suggestions?
> > > Do we care?
> > 
> > I think this simply can't be answered until more is known about the Extras
> > process :
> 
> Maybe, maybe not. We're supposed to continue with fedora.us releases,
> and since we have lost fedora-package-announce at fedora.us, there
> haven't been any package announcements anymore.
> 
> > As for the formatting, same thing, will it be sent by the packager (or
> > another individual, like the "moderator" that approved it) or by a build
> > system?
> 
> If it could be automated, that would be very good, e.g. like "rawhide
> report". So far, not every packager has posted announcements. The
> list archives cover maybe 50% of the published packages and updates.
> Maybe even less.
imho this should be automated. Most people just use fedora-pkgannfmt
anyway, which could probably just be run as the bult packages are copied
to their respective directories !?






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