Hi Shawn: I'm willing to help, though I haven't done any real programming I'm ten years our so, and don't know how much "help" I would actually be, but it's an offer. Richard On Feb 27, 2013 6:50 PM, "Shawn Iwinski" <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I have started packaging the development version of Drupal 8. There is > still plenty of work to do (please help!) and I would also like to get the > maintainers of drupal6 and drupal7 packages involved. > > Besides "simply" packaging Drupal itself, I am trying to implement some > additional features: > * provide RPM macros -- this will help simplify spec files > * virtual packages (i.e. "drupal8(<drupal_machine_name>)") -- this will > especially help with the requiring of sub-modules > * virtual package auto-provides (parsed from *.info filenames) -- this > allows a package to provide the main module itself as well as any > sub-module(s) that are included > * virtual package auto-requires (parsed from *.info files' > "dependencies[]" entries) -- this will help simplify spec files > * formalized packaging guidelines > > I must give major credit for the auto provides and requires to the nodejs > and npm package owners as I took a lot from their setup. > > Drupal 8 itself is still in major development and this package will not > be ready for Fedora for a good while. I am doing all of my work out of > GitHub. If you would like to help out or review anything, please see the > links below: > > Specs and issues: https://github.com/siwinski/drupal8-rpms > Dev repos: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/siwinski/drupal8/ > Draft packaging guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Siwinski/Draft:Packaging:Drupal8 > > -- > Shawn Iwinski > Sr. Software Applications Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. > siwinski(a)redhat.com > shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com > IRC: siwinski > GPG: 0x7cd74d05 > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- devel mailing list devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I have started packaging the development version of Drupal 8. There is > still plenty of work to do (please help!) and I would also like to get the > maintainers of drupal6 and drupal7 packages involved. I'm willing to help out a bit, as I maintain a half-dozen or so drupal7 packages in Fedora.

Besides "simply" packaging Drupal itself, I am trying to implement some > additional features: > * provide RPM macros -- this will help simplify spec files > * virtual packages (i.e. "drupal8(<drupal_machine_name>)") -- this will > especially help with the requiring of sub-modules > * virtual package auto-provides (parsed from *.info filenames) -- this > allows a package to provide the main module itself as well as any > sub-module(s) that are included > * virtual package auto-requires (parsed from *.info files' "dependencies[]" > entries) -- this will help simplify spec files > * formalized packaging guidelines I was thinking about this just yesterday, as it was taking me a while to track down a bunch of sub-modules and which packages were providing them. I think virtual provides for sub-modules is something we could really use -- and the rest would be fantastic, if we can make it work automagically.

Drupal 8 itself is still in major development and this package will not be > ready for Fedora for a good while. I am doing all of my work out of GitHub. > If you would like to help out or review anything, please see the links > below: > > Specs and issues: https://github.com/siwinski/drupal8-rpms > Dev repos: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/siwinski/drupal8/ > Draft packaging guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Siwinski/Draft:Packaging:Drupal8 I added a couple of lines to the packaging guidelines around Drupal libraries. We may also want to revisit the latest proposed JavaScript packaging guidelines and make sure that all the new Drupal 8 packages follow them.

Jared Smith -- devel mailing list devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > * virtual package auto-provides (parsed from *.info filenames) -- this > allows a package to provide the main module itself as well as any > sub-module(s) that are included > * virtual package auto-requires (parsed from *.info files' "dependencies[]" > entries) -- this will help simplify spec files Hi, one of Drupal's maintainers here. The info files are moving to YAML for D8, so please don't expend too much effort on parsing the current, proprietary .info format. -- David Strauss | david(a)davidstrauss.net | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] -- devel mailing list devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel