Hello: On 10/17/2011 11:28 PM, Stuart Mumford wrote: > Hello, > > >You read my mind! I have been thinking of doing this since the day I > saw the engineering and scientific group. > > Nice to know! Great minds or idiots you choose! > > >A good starting point would perhaps be to email the release engineering > >list [1] and state your intention citing the comps files. [2] > > Excuse my inexperience, > > What is the method to achieve this then? Is it to write a comps file to > define the categories and sub-categories, then include this in the Spin, > or in Fedora in general? Here is what I did when I submitted a patch to one of the comps file: - Checked out the comps files from the git repository - Made my changes. Please see [1] - Discussed the patch on the release engineering list and request someone to push it on behalf of you. > > What would be the best way to get suggestions of categories / packages > from the wider community? And what about intergration with groups such > as the Astronomy SIG? Regarding the first question: I think the SciTech SIG list (this one) is the best place. You might want to kickstart a new thread with your proposal and initial thoughts. Regarding the second question, I am not quite sure. SciTech SIG is definitely the more general group, so to speak. Integration is something which I personally am not too sure about..sorry. > > Also, would the best place to start be to branch the comps files git > tree? Or not?! Yes, please. > > > >As far as I know, Fedora's "package groups" try to address such a concern. > > I might be completely off track here though. But, please discuss > this issue on the packaging list[.] > > I have emailed the packaging list about this FYI. Great. Shall look forward to any further updates on this. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_groups Best, Amit -- http://echorand.me _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
