http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:07 -0400, Eric R. Meyers wrote:
> I'm a new participant in fedora-extras, and I initially brought up this issue 
> on the fedora-extras mailing list.
> 
> Review:
> 	1. Why does it say 22 groups, when only 20 groups are listed?
> 	2. Why are 1031 of 1251 packages in __nogroup__?
> 
> There was a good response to my inquiry, and I watched the discussions between 
> the more experienced members of the group.  I'm wondering what is going on 
> now with the solution process, as an outsider.
> 
> I'm willing to contribute, when I can be of service.


Hi Eric & others,

I've been following this thread which started at:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-
July/msg00436.html

and am trying to understand it.  Heres my summary to-date and *please*
correct me if I've mis-understood anything:

 1) most folks (eg. Katz, Spaleta) don't want to use the group tags 
    that are located in the spec files and apparently for good 
    reasons -- it just doesn't scale

 2) most folks do like the idea of having a small number of people
    maintain the comps.xml file but they're too busy to work on 
    it now and much too busy to take the lead and write helpful 
    make-driven bits to simplify the process by which package 
    maintainers could "nominate" their package(s) for inclusion 
    into one or more group(s)

 3) currently, all one needs is a text editor and a willingness to 
    sort through the packages and edit "comps.xml" to improve the
    current situation -- writing some more automated bits as 
    described in (2) could be evolved over time

So, if Jef and Eric (and perhaps others) were given CVS access to edit
the comps-extras package:

  http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/comps-extras/

then they could help.  Right?

But, it looks like that package is currently in "core" so only Red Hat
folks can edit it.  If so, shouldn't it be moved out to Extras?  Or,
could Extras folks somehow have the ability to edit just the content
delivered by that package?

Ed

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