De-sucking the packaging documentation

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:31 -0400, Chip Coldwell wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The current state of documentation about the buildsystem, tagging,
> > releases etc sucks.
> 
> +1
> 
> I think some of the blame should also be assigned to a rather
> ambitious set of goals for F7, i.e. doing the core/extras merge and
> EPEL at the same time as a release.  Actually, does anyone else see
> any irony in the fact that Fedora is merging core+extras at the same
> time that RHEL is adding extras?

I don't think that's the case at all.  There are perhaps 2 or 3 people
working on EPEL that overlap on the infrastructure side of things for
Fedora.  EPEL has no bearing here in the least.

Ambitious goals, perhaps.  EPEL, no.

> > The nearest thing to helpful is Josh Boyer's FAQ, but that's only
> > findable if you've been keeping up with this mailing list.
> 
> Where is it?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBoyer/MergeHOWTO

josh