RFC: YDL Extras

[Cian Duffy]

I'd be willing to do some uploading on this except for the problem
that I can't use CVS (my DSL has decided its 'special' for some
reason). Would SSL'ed FTP be a possibility?

Also, what legality level would be accepted for packages? Would
potentially patent encumbered packages - such as full XMMS, ffmpeg,
mplayer, vlc, Handbrake, and so on, be allowed. Some of these are the
most interesting and the most mentally painful to build for a new user
- VLC in particular needs around 30 srpms compiled and installeds,
many of which are co-dependent.

Cian


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:57:36 -0800, Owen Stampflee
<ostampflee at terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
> So there has been some chatter about YDL Extras... but we need
> manpower... here is how we're planning on doing it.
> 
> 1) Packages are submitted via CVS by some trusted person. This will be a
> small group, hopefully all community members. If you're not in this
> group, you can post a URL of the SRPM you wish to submit to the yet to
> be created ydl-extras mailing list.
> 
> 2) The packages are built with our internal build system via a cron job,
> if a new package is built... an email is sent to the ydl-extras mailing
> list stating the package has been built and contains URLs. We'll also
> have a yum repo of the testing repo packages.
> 
> 3) If 3 success reports and no fail reports are reported to the list,
> the package is deemed stable, and moves to the staging server where
> it'll be mirrored on the real YDL servers.
> 
> 4) The world gets to enjoy more great YDL packages.
> 
> Interested in helping out? Well... let me hear about it! If you wanna
> chat about ideas/what not... come to #yellowdog on irc.freenode.net. I
> cant create mailling lists, so we'll have to wait until the TSS sysadmin
> can.
> 
> Cheers,
> Owen
> 
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