On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:49:26PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > These drivers can be hosted in Fedora space, by providing the binaries > > and source -- although Fedora Hosted is acceptable, the Board left the > > choice of location to the Infrastructure team. Mike McGrath and the > > team will be happy to work with you on that. > > A quick followup; I made a suggestion that we include a requirement > "and clear instructions for building the software". > > A sample is: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/tree/README.win32 > > Though more ideally, you mention the exact versions of tools (such as > MSVC++) used to build the drivers. > > The basic idea here is to avoid the "bus factor"; a few simple notes > can easily save a huge amount of time if for some reason someone has > to rebuild and the original developer isn't available. Great idea, Colin. I proposed a patch to the Websites team that posts information on binaries in the FAQ on fedorahosted.org: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2010-January/007575.html > Does virtio-win have such instructions? The instructions should (at a minimum) appear with the rest of the source code, in whatever way that's distributed. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
