The Fedora Electronic Lab community needs MORE packagers as its userbase is growing release after release.
We are currently a small FEL team focussing on promoting opensource software in the world of Integrated Circuit design. Our userbase’s (Fedora,CentOS&RHEL users) demand for proprietary alternatives is also proportional to our current success in effective opensource EDA software deployment.
Thereby, we are seeking new contributors and RPM packagers to close our tickets and drive the FEL community forward.
Requirements:
- Packagers should be familiar with Fedora packaging guidelines/policies.
- We also need people to lead FEL.
- Newbies are welcome as well (Mentoring will be provided).
- Electronic design know-how is not required.
I would appreciate if you could parse on this request to anyone who might be interested in joining the team.
Currently, the tickets reflect Fedora-13′s feature list. If you are interested, please join in our mailing list. Draft spec files are also provided to help you out for your basic RPM babysteps.
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Chitlesh Goorah
[...] Goorah sent out a call for packaging help at the same time as Zhang Xinyi and Ye Long began working on the Spins webpage for FEL. [...]
It might be cause creating rpm looks like a pain. I have experience creating packages for macports and compared to that rpm “looks” very complicated.
The “How to create RPM package” needs to be shortened. It mentions everything, every piece of information is thrown at you hoping you will grasp it all. It should mention the basics of making an rpm and another section on more advanced switches/options etc.