Hi I have just filed the RFR for Ask Fedora at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/2884 Askbot - http://askbot.org is a question and answer oriented forum that I am requesting Fedora infrastructure team. As some of you might already know, I have been working on packaging Askbot and its dependencies for Fedora for the last several weeks. At this point, except for Askbot itself, all its dependencies are in Fedora. Most of the dependencies have been built for EPEL 6 as well. We originally tried building for EPEL 5 but many of the dependencies are expected to be more recent versions and went with EPEL 6 instead. I expect to finish all the packaging work before the end of this week. There are some minor patches for Askbot I am working on that I want to test before importing Askbot itself but the process is mostly complete and I along with others have tested it locally. I thought I would get a early start on the proposal and answer any questions on this and get the discussions going in parallel while I do the last steps. I have been working with upstream for a while now and on our request, upstream has made the authentication system extensible via plugins. We have added a plugin for authentication via Fedora account system. The next step is to run a test instance, test it more publicly and fix any issues and add some minor features (identi.ca support, auto linking to Red Hat bugzilla for bug references etc) and I hope to be able to go into production stage or atleast a soft launch before Fedora 16. I have explained in length my motivations for working on this and rest of the details at https://mether.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/the-case-for-ask-fedora/ Do let me know your thoughts Rahul _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
