Re: help for packagers (was: Re: FOSDEM Aftermath - the Hotel / Notes from preparing and giving my talk)

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 25.02.2009 um 10:14 schrieb Nicola Pero:

> > my proposal:
> >
> > - as a first measure we should include a PACKAGERS.readme file  
> > into each core package (make, base, gui and back) which:
> > * contains a pointer to gnustep-packagers@gna.org and discuss- 
> > gnustep@gnu.org
> > * contains a pointer to our bug reporting system (with the hint to  
> > report bugs "upstream")
> > * explains some basic concepts about the respective package
> > * gives some helpful hints
> > * what else?
>
> I agree.  In fact in December, I added a README.Packaging to  
> gnustep-make (under Documentation), which should include
> a summary of most of the information needed to package GNUstep  
> stuff. :-)

Great! I didn't know that (because I did not look there - but will  
others look there?)

> (feel free to suggest improvements to that file!)

I will read it the next days and post my comments

> After your comments, I added to the file a reference to the mailing  
> list.  I don't think it's a good idea to have a separate mailing list
> for packagers though, since nobody would be subscribed to it so  
> it's unlikely that help request will get answered.  Is it OK to
> tell people to ask for help at help-gnustep@gnu.org ?
>
> Maybe the file should go top-level so it's more prominent ?

I thought about that too, but then again all packages (make, base,  
gui and back) are released as self contained tar balls here:

http://wwwmain.gnustep.org/resources/downloads.php?site=ftp%3A%2F% 
2Fftp.gnustep.org%2Fpub%2Fgnustep%2F

and some folks will even package only some of them for their  
distribution. The readme files should be in there.

> Thanks

regards,

        Lars