Building a Better Network
by Lee Faus
Uzi,
I wanted to open the lines of communication outside of Alfresco about the discussions of a *CompanyName* Network. I had this discussion about 18 months ago with Rich Friedman, Mark Lugert, Matt Mattox, and some others inside of Red Hat about using Alfresco as the foundation for an Open Source Network to be used by all Open Source companies. Since this time, Red Hat has started opening up the code base that makes up RHN under the code name SpaceWalk on the Fedora Projects. This is meant to be built as a potential replacement for Red Hat Satellite, but it will be some time until this happens. I have created a bullet on the Fedora Hosted site to represent this concept to the SpaceWalk developers: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/BrainBox. I know that this is not an immediate fit for us, but I am thinking larger scale. I know that JBoss had JBossON, Red Hat has RHN, JasperSoft has theirs and now we are doing it again. There has to be some economy of scale here so we all don't waste our time. I think building us into the SpaceWalk project makes great sense as they currently have a home grown Content Management System that is deeply integrated into Oracle :(. Replacing this with Alfresco would allow for them scale out very quickly. There are also discussions about SpaceWalk integrating JasperReports for Reporting and GroundWork or some other Monitoring tool to replace the custom development being done. Red Hat has the most experience doing this work as they have run their Network for over 6 years now. We should leverage this knowledge and how we scale out with them instead of working against the grain IMVHO. I have included the other Open Source ISVs in this mailing as well as Matt Asay and my old boss at Red Hat, Matt Mattox, who is in charge of ISV development as a whole at Red Hat that I think would be interested in leveraging this for both Commercial and Open Source ISVs. Let me know what you think.
Lee Faus
Director of Solution Engineering
Alfresco
lee.faus(a)alfresco.com
15 years, 3 months
ISV Summit
by Karsten Wade
It hadn't occurred to me to specifically invite everyone here to the
Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) on 8 - 10 January in
Boston.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11
One use we have for FUDCon is to meet and work on ISV-specific issues
in a mini-ISV summit. It's also a great chance to meet some of the
people across the rest of the project who can help you.
I'm presuming anyone who isn't already planning on coming will not be
there, but Lee just put a bug in my ear about the ISV summit idea,
some possibilities are:
* FUDCon 11 in January
- Great time to get ready for Fedora 11 plans
* Virtual summit
- Fedora Talk conference room (VoIP)
- Gobby for shared document work, IRC for chat
- Let's us get plans in place for Fedora 11 while there is still
time
* Red Hat Summit/JBossWorld in the Summer
- Many of folks may be there already
- Chance to attract even more contributors/collaborators
- Beyond F11, good for F12 planning
Many folks are focusing on Fedora 10 and 11 because we can see there
is a horizon coming for RHEL 6. This is one reason to put some
urgency in getting packages in to the Fedora 11 cycle for maximum
impact[1].
Have a Happy New Year,
- Karsten
[1] For refreshers on why it matters:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ISV_Special_Interest_Group#Why_should_ISVs...
--
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
AD0E0C41
15 years, 3 months
Swapping java library reviews?
by Mary Ellen Foster
Hello all,
I'm working on creating a Fedora package for an application written in
Java -- JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net) -- which has a
dependency on a *lot* of other Java libraries (see
http://mef.fedorapeople.org/packages/jabref-dependencies.html). I've
put the first bunch of "leaf nodes" up for review, but so far only one
of them has been looked at.
Karsten Wade suggested that if I came to this list, I might find
people who are dealing with similar issues of packaging Java libraries
that are prerequisites for other packages. I'm prepared to swap
reviews -- particularly of Java packages -- with anyone who might be
working on a similar goal.
Thanks for any help and suggestions,
MEF
--
Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/
Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
15 years, 4 months
Fedora 11 target
by Karsten Wade
Fedora provides a nice synchronization clock for release features,
including your software package in Fedora.
The schedule for Fedora 11 is now set:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule
Who is interested in having your software as a feature for Fedora 11?
I've set a goal of trying to get as many ISVs in to Fedora by the next
release. As a focus, I'm still able to commit some time to helping
everyone here get problems solved.
- Karsten
--
Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
AD0E0C41
15 years, 4 months
Re: ConVirt Package
by jd
resending :
It would be great if some one can please clarify
-- If the python egg step is mandatory. or we can skip it for the first release.
-- What does trading of package mean ? Do you mean the spec file?
Thanks
/Jd
--- On Tue, 11/11/08, jd <jdsw2002(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: jd <jdsw2002(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: ConVirt Package
> To: fedora-isv-sig-list(a)redhat.com, "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade(a)redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 9:26 AM
> Thanks Karsten for responding.
>
> No. We do not use libvirt yet. That is something that we
> would be investigating shortly.
>
> I have started looking in to the packaging guide...
>
> One question is : We currently have an RPM spec and do not
> have the python egg type install. Are python eggs mandatory
> ?
>
> If the rpm/spec are in good shape, can we try to get
> ConVirt in, while we work the egg (assuming it is
> mandatory.) ? This way we can get a usable package in
> sooner.
>
> Thanks
> /Jd
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 11/10/08, Karsten 'quaid' Wade
> <kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Karsten 'quaid' Wade
> <kwade(a)redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: ConVirt Package
> > To: fedora-isv-sig-list(a)redhat.com
> > Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 5:50 PM
> > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:32:09AM -0800, jd wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am Jd owner/maintainer of the ConVirt
> project on
> > > Sourceforge. We are Virtualization Management
> tool
> > for managing
> > > VM Lifecycle for Xen and KVM environments.
> More
> > details about our
> > > project can be found at
> http://www.convirt.net.
> > >
> > > We do most of our development on Fedora and
> > generate RPMs
> > > too. The spec file is also part of the
> > distribution. We would
> > > like become part of the fedora
> > distribution/repository. This
> > > would make our package easily accessible to
> our
> > community. Would
> > > like to understand the process and stream line
> it
> > to the extend
> > > that newest releases of ConVirt are almost
> > immediately available
> > > to community via repository.
> > >
> > > Xavier.t Lamien has been kind and have been
> trying
> > to help us with
> > > this, but has been swamped by other things.
> Would
> > appreciate if
> > > someone can guide us to make some progress on
> this.
> >
> > Sounds very interesting. Does ConVirt use any of the
> other
> > virt tools
> > around Fedora, such as libvirt?
> >
> > People on this list might be interested in trading
> initial
> > package
> > reviews. When you've got packages in review, you
> could
> > bring them
> > here for a trade.
> >
> > Have you been through the package maintainers joining
> > process and read
> > the packaging guidelines?
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
> >
> > Is there anywhere specifically you are stuck?
> >
> > Cheers - Karsten
> > --
> > Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
> > http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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