packages without internet source in fedora

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Maybe I'm just jaded that fedorahosted is too 'distro specific'.  I
> didn't want it to be, but I guess that's what you get when "fedora" is
> attached to the name.  (having to sign the Fedora CLA to get an account
> doesn't help much either...)

It doesn't have to be.  I prodded Karsten Hopp to move the hwdata
package upstream to fedorahosted, initially to get it out of Red Hat
internal CVS.  It turns out, this package is used directly by Debian
and Ubuntu (several times), as well as Fedora and RHEL.  The Ubuntu
developers I've spoken with have been happy with this arrangement, and
I've been happy for them to point me at LaunchPad-filed bugs with regard to
this package which I could easily fix and commit.  Whether or not the
maintainers in Ubuntu and Debian have requested Fedora accounts and
signed the CLA, I don't know.  But they're benefitting from it being
available, just as Fedora is.

I expect the same is true of additional packages too.

In a similar vein, John Lockhart is using his fedorapeople space to
manage the paper submissions for OLS.  This means everyone who is
writing a paper for OLS either a) creates a FAS account (preferred),
or b) mails tarballs to John (less preferred).  That's a cool use of
the infrastructure that I would never have thought of before, and it
has the potential to bring more people into the Fedora family.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux