On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:09, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:01:08 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote: > > > > > Silke, I'll volunteer to be one of your reviewers. > > > > > > Good to hear that. Though, Silke's packages are held up by packages > > > at the bottom of their dependency chain, e.g. shapelib: > > > > > > https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=920 > > > > > > That package blocks four other tickets, so one would guess the > > > packagers would try to get it released with higher priority. Would be > > > much appreciated to get your comments there. > > > > Please tell me what I need to do. If I need to be a package reviewer > > for shapelib, I'll do that. If I need to lobby people inside Red Hat, > > I'll try to do that. I think it's hugely important that Fedora be a > > good host for GIS software users and developers. > > [Actually, this particular package is called "proj" (shapelib is > another one in the dependency chain).] > > Bug 920 would need somebody to answer the questions raised in the > last comment and preferably post a GPG clearsigned approval in > accordance with the fedora.us package submission and QA policy > ( http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageSubmissionQAPolicy ). [1] Hi Michael (& Michael), As someone relatively new to packaging, thank you for the discussion on how to get software into Fedora Extras. I'd also *very* much like to see Fedora become a good distro for GIS (and climate and weather and ocean modeling). And as the NetCDF and NCO package submitter, I'm dedicating a few hours every week to work on updates and QA. Hopefully, I'll get faster as I get more experience. So please keep the reviews coming! I promise to enthusiastically [not reluctantly! ;-)] make changes when the suggestions make sense. Ed ps - It would be great to have an OPeNDAP (formerly "DODS") RPM (or collection of RPMs since it has many components) for Fedora. Is anyone else interested in tackling this large-ish package? Or has someone already done it? http://opendap.org/ -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: eh3@xxxxxxx ed@xxxxxxx URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464
