On 7/17/07, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote: > > > > > Actually, more than 400 spec files, AFAIK. If we're aiming for 20000+ > > we've gotta invent a better structure and real processes. I'm looking > > forward to having to deal with that problem (: > > > > Very True :-) >
The big number is not the aim of the event. (debian repository has been work of hundreds of people over many years!!!) Would want to set things in motion in that direction. Better structures & process -> the output of the event will need it. Not intended to be the center of attention during the event. Lot of work will necessary after the event as well: Multiple iterations and reviews will be required after the event to get specs with well defined dependencies and clean working build-order. Some of the changes might need to be sent upstream to respective softwares to make the build of the upstream code more portable as well as reduce the burden on pkgbuild spec author/maintainer from maintaining unnecessary hacks. Once we manage to overcome these stuff, we can think about the better scalable structure and easy access to everyone to contribute, etc. > For everyone to start contributing, we must spread word and wisdom about > pkgbuild. It must also be very easy for anyone to submit their changes > maybe a page where people can login and upload a tarball. And if we want > it to scale, Hopefully the event will be a good start. Also the belenix code base will be becoming online in the near future. These 2 aspects done well should help achieve it. (As of now pkgbuild's sourceforge site has the spec files under SVN. You may upload your specs there). > we must let as many people as possible to contribute and > have a core set of volunteers, who triage the uploaded spec files, run > weekly builds and make sure nothing is broken. A bug tracking system is > also necessary. > Lotsa possibilities. Similar thoughts have been in my head since I first used pkgbuild :-) > Is there a pkgbuild community where such discussions can happen ? I > would be very interested in contributing. > Currently desktop-discuss is where pkgbuild related discussion happens. -Shiv
