On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > # CCed to epel-devel-list, as the audience there might be interested in > # this mail as well; nevertheless please send replies to > # [email protected] only, tia! > > Hi! > > As some of you may know: RPM Fusion ( http://rpmfusion.org/ ) not only > supports Fedora, it also wants to support EL (e.g. RHEL and > clones/derivatives like CentOS) & EPEL for EL >=5 similar to how RPM Fusion > supports Fedora(¹), as a lot of people asked for such a repo. The testing > repositories for this are online and filled with the most important RPM > Fusion packages for quite a while now; see > http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2008/11/rpm-fusion-for-el-in-early-testing.html > for details how to enable those repos. > > In the past weeks there hasn't been much progress to move the packages to > the normal repos and to officially announce support for EL & EPEL. The main > reason for that: We have quite a few packagers that are interested in having > the most important RPM Fusion packages available in a RPM Fusion for EL & > EPEL, but afaics nobody really wants to do the surrounding work that is > needed. Hence RPM Fusions look for a volunteers (or maybe two) that act a > bit as "Release-Engineers/-Managers" for RPM Fusion's EL repos. > > The position means a bit of work, but not to much if everything works well. > And the latter (making sure everything works well) is basically the job > description already; e.g. make sure the repo as a whole work is in healthy > state and now and in the future makes users and contributors glad. That > means things like: > Are there legal aspects to be considered? I'm a non-US citizen residing in the US, and I'm interested in this, but would rather stay away from having official responsibility for packages such as gstreamer-plugins-{ugly,bad}.
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