> I'm not @redhat.com but I'm involved in the process in various ways. > Mostly by being annoying and sysadminning certain servers :) > > Here is a status report: > - cristian gafton, the technical lead of the fedora project, is working > on making the build system 'just work'. He's trying to get it right and > happy so things do what we expect. He tends to be less talkative than a > lot of people might want but he's doing a lot of head down work that, > quite frankly, is painfully complex to do right. > > - cvs is open, commits are occurring, websites are up and people are > fixing up packages. It's a bright new day that's vaguely foggy. :) > > - many of the packages have been built and a pre-extras repository will > probably be unleashed on the unwitting public very soon. (mark my words) > > - the other infrastructure bits that need to be ready first: > - 'extras' gpg key for signing packages needs to be made > - bugzilla needs to know about extras and about the package owners > - extras needs to be dealt with vis-a-vis the mirroring systems > - some release timing issues need to get worked out. > > There is a smallish group of not-terribly-talkative people working on > these problems and, believe it or not, they're making some headway. > > I'll post more as I know it/come across it. And I'll post more and a > little more detail soon. helps is somewhat speculative, but I do appreciate the info. I'm aware of the trouble that goes into setting up a build environment (at least my troubles with it). -- Public Key available Here: http://www.bravegnuworld.com/~rjune/pubkey.asc
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