Hey,

While preparing win64 support in Fedora a dedicated yum testing repository was used to provide win64 packages which could be tested. As win64 support has now arrived in Fedora 17 this dedicated yum testing repository has become obsolete and will be removed eventually.

Over time various people started to contribute new packages to this testing repository. As this testing repository won't be updated any more we're looking for people who want to maintain these new packages in Fedora. Here is a list of packages which people contributed to the testing repository but which aren't part of Fedora yet:

mingw-attica: Implementation of the Open Collaboration Services API

mingw-crypt: Cryptographic functions from GLIBC 2.14

mingw-dbusmenu-qt: A Qt implementation of the DBusMenu protocol

mingw-fftw: A Fast Fourier Transform library

mingw-flac: Free Lossless Audio Codec Library

mingw-gd: A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images

mingw-giflib: Library for manipulating GIF format image files

mingw-gstreamer-ffmpeg: Cross compiled GStreamer FFmpeg-based plug-ins

mingw-gstreamer-plugins-bad: Cross compiled GStreamer plug-ins "bad"

mingw-gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Cross compiled GStreamer plug-ins "bad"

mingw-gstreamer-plugins-good: Cross compiled GStreamer plug-ins good

mingw-gstreamer-plugins-ugly: Cross compiled GStreamer plug-ins ugly

mingw-gtk2-engines: Theme engines for GTK+ 2.0

mingw-jack-audio-connection-kit: The Jack Audio Connection Kit

mingw-kdelibs: KDE Libraries

mingw-kdewin: Supplementary library for compiling KDE applications on Windows

mingw-libart_lgpl: Library of graphics routines used by libgnomecanvas

mingw-libgnomecanvas: GnomeCanvas widget

mingw-libgnomecanvasmm: C++ interface for Gnome libs

mingw-liblrdf: Library for manipulating RDF files describing LADSPA plugins

mingw-libproxy: Library handling all the details of proxy configuration

mingw-libsamplerate: MinGW Windows Sample rate conversion library for audio data

mingw-libsndfile: Library for reading and writing sound files

mingw-libtheora: Cross compiled Theora Video Compression Codec

mingw-orc: Cross compiled Oil Run-time Compiler

mingw-phonon: Multimedia framework api

mingw-portaudio: Free, cross platform, open-source, audio I/O library

mingw-qjson: A qt-based library that maps JSON data to QVariant objects

mingw-qtlockedfile: Cross compiled QFile extension with advisory locking functions

mingw-qtsingleapplication: Qt library to start applications only once per user

mingw-raptor: Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit

mingw-spice-gtk: A GTK+ widget for SPICE clients

mingw-strigi: Strigi search engine libraries

If you're interested in maintaining one of these packages in Fedora feel free to pull the latest .spec files and patches from [1] and file a review request ticket for them [2]. Don't forgot to add fedora-mingw@lists.fedoraproject.org to the CC field of your review ticket so you can find people to review your packages more soon.

The packages mingw-gstreamer-ffmpeg, mingw-gstreamer-plugins-bad and mingw-gstreamer-plugins-ugly aren't allowed in the Fedora repos itself because of legal reasons. If you're interested in maintaining these you can file a review request in RPMFusion [3] where these packages are welcome.

Kind regards,

Erik van Pienbroek

[1]: http://svn.openftd.org/svn/fedora_cross/ [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process [3]: http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors#Submitting_a_new_package