Re: about yum.postgresql.org

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:
>> Debian stuff got one: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-pkg-debian/
>>
>> Can we consider http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-pkg-yum/ ?
>
> Good idea, +1.

+1 as well.

Alvaro, can you make that happen? ;)

>> I would also like to see the maintenance team of those packages been
>> extended, I believe Devrim is alone, which is not 'safe' (what
>> happens if Devrim is in holidays *without* internet, ... ok it is
>> *rare*, but still).
>
> Well, there are two separate processes in here:
>
> * Updating the spec file : I'm all for adding new people, who have
> provided high quality patches so far. However, my experience has not
> been that nice -- some people either tried to break packaging policies
> of Fedora/Red Hat, some people tried to change the packaging layout
> based on their personal/company/customer requirements. IIRC we have
> Fetter and Magnus as the alternative committers in here, but I'm too
> lazy to check it now. AFAIK, we don't have many Fedora packagers in the

If I'm a committer on that, I was certainly unaware of it :) And you
should probably not count me in even if I am - I've never worked with
any of that, so I couldn't go commit anything with confidence
anyway...

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