Hello EPEL folks, Is it possible from RH side to sponsor me with (lets say RHEL 5.X) license for be able to maintain properly the GIS interest group ?
Wiki of GIS, list of packages which I maintain from booth professional reasons and hobby: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GIS?highlight=(GIS) I would mention packages are quite picky and hard to maintain, complexity is pretty high, I myself maintain for multiple reasons tham in fedora. Task is quite difficult without a RHEL desktop, frecvent ABI changes require to develop sort of compat-* library, and its not so easy to test product properly in the lack of properly licensed RHEL desktop. Unfortunatley upstream release cycle is faster than RHEL release one, and new futures are always requested before a new RHEL product series. Just using blindly the plague client its near impossible to do this task, I personaly fail to do it for EPEL at highest quality with version track and compatibility changes but its an easy task for fedora since there are no strict rules, not to much care if radical upgrade is involved. I see GIS interest group as a good ground base for all GIS professionists, and finaly RH products could cover this professional area too, wich was completly uncovered before i took the task, and i would like to keep it on. Also I would mention that other people make money out of these packages and support, I did it for free of course, since these days it quite intersect with my work and professional area in wich i am involved. Here is one example: http://www.gdf-hannover.de/ Personaly quite dissapointed how they support distros, but its personal opinion dont want any polemics with tham, however I salute their initiative. Obviously i am a RH fan since 1996, quite difficult to distract my opinion and blame anything about RHEL/Fedora quality. Best Regards, Cristian. _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
