Re: Greetings from Fedora

[Orion Poplawski]

On 02/23/2011 02:18 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> If you're not aware of it already, a big change is on the verge of
> happening in Fedora. We are going to split the monolithic octave-forge
> package into individual packages. This has been mostly the work of Orion
> Poplawski, who has been working on a program to automatically construct
> spec files (the recipe for building the RPM), so that making and
> reviewing them is simpler. Still, the process will take quite some
> amount of work.

I'll take this as a moment to plea for help with getting the octave forge 
packages into Fedora 15.  Please let us know if you would be interested in 
maintaining an octave forge package in Fedora.

See:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers#Get_Involved
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Octave
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OrionPoplawski/Octave_Packages

for some more info.  I am a sponsor so can help with getting new members 
involved.

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