Comps, or, Making it Easier for Users to Find Software

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 09:13 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 00:22 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > So, you might ask, what can I do to help?  Well, if you maintain an
> > application which makes sense for a user to select[1], check out the
> > comps module and make sure that your package is listed in a reasonable
> > group in the comps-fe5.xml.in file.  If it's not, feel free to add it
> > using the following as a template if your package were named "foo":
> >   <packagereq type="optional">foo</packagereq>
> > If you think there needs to be a new group, please let me know.
>
> I think a Documentation group would be a big help for FDP as we prepare
> to submit some of our build tools and actual documents to Extras for
> review and inclusion.  Thanks for the opportunity!

This definitely makes sense, but adding the group before there is
content available for it is less so.  When the packages exist, we can
add the group with the initial packages

Jeremy