[Fedora-electronic-lab] Webpage for Binary packages

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Ziyad Saeed <myschizobuddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm asking for Qucs to link to FEL. So users on Qucs download page should be
> directed to FEL page and be able to download binary packages of Qucs for any
> version of Fedora. These packages are maintained by Fedora and not Qucs
> Or just ask Qucs to include instructions on how to install Qucs on fedora
> "yum install qucs" instead of directing users to an outdated page that
> doesn't even exist.
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Ziyad Saeed < hidden > wrote:
>> > Hello Everyone
>> > I was gong through QUCS download webpage and noted that it links to an
>> > extremely outdated webpage for fedora rpms. FEL does have up to date
>> > binaries for QUCS but they are downloadable from a webpage. it would be
>> > nice
>> > if there was a webpage with links to these binaries and we can send that
>> > link to ALL the electronics packages that are part of FEL. This should
>> > boast
>> > exposure of FEL
>>
>> First qucs is available under fedora repositories, since Fedora Core 3
>> as suggested by
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/qucs
>>
>> As a rule of thumb, we should avoid linking to third parties website
>> 1. Fedora Legal does not like it
>> 2. Security reasons of the targetted software
>> 3. Maintenance of wiki pages/manpower will be required, to verifiy if
>> materials are removed from the linked page
>>
>> If a software is missing under the Fedora umbrella, ask some on the
>> fedora-devel mailing list to package it. If it is FEL related, file a
>> ticket :)
>>
>> Chitlesh
>> --
>> Chitlesh GOORAH
>> Fedora Electronic Lab Architect
>> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL
>
>



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Chitlesh GOORAH
Fedora Electronic Lab Architect
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL