[repo-coord] RPMforge invitation

[Dag Wieers]

Hi,

There's no good time for sending this mail, except in the past :)

What started as an experiment between Matthias, Dries and me, will 
hopefully become a much broader cooperation between existing packagers, 
developers and users, including you.

At this point RPMforge is nothing more than 1 big repository of SPEC files 
that build for a large set of distributions together with a few agreed 
techniques and policies. So in that respect it shouldn't be hard to join.

The bigger and more complicated step would be one where we merge the 
building process and make a complete set of packages out of it. But before 
doing that we think we should complete the first and simple step of 
merging by having known and good packagers involved.

Currently we do not have much infrastructure and there definitely is a 
need for improving this. The subversion system, website and mailinglists 
are currently hosted on a server owned and managed by Dries.

If you're interested to join the discussions or merge SPEC files, you can 
subscribe to the packager mailinglist.

Join
	http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/packagers
Read
	http://rpmforge.net/	(and consider it a draft :))
Inspect
	http://svn.rpmforge.net/
	http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/docs/
	http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/svn-commits

If you need more information about RPMforge, and the unfinished website is 
of no help, please post to the mailinglist. The future will depend on your 
feedback and involvement. We have some vague ideas, but nothing is set in 
stone yet.

We hope to hear from you soon.

--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]