[Rdo-list] Packaging the big tent (or at least part of it)

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:17:50AM +1000, Graeme Gillies wrote:
> This is an interesting idea. As we start to get more projects under big
> tent and into RDO (and the projects themselves might be in various
> states in terms of maturity and stability), it might be worthwhile
> having some documentation somewhere on the RDO website on what big tent
> projects are in RDO, and which one or more people have taken the
> ownership of packaging and maintaining them. This might be at a level
> higher than RPMs itself. Essentially some form of process/governance to
> officially identify what's in RDO (to avoid duplicates) and give people
> a way of identifying who's responsible if patches/work is needed (and
> who to contact to offer help assisting maintenance).

Possibly this is too heavyweight, but it may be that pkdb2
<https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2> could be of help here. It's a
webapp (open source, naturally) for both documenting this and managing
the associated ACLs. See for example
<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/openstack-heat/>

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader