[WBEL-users] Rsync Updates Organizing

[Aly Dharshi]

Hi Folks,

	I think that the maintainers want to have a release similar to RedHat's EL. But 
the thing is that users - like ourselves - who are using WBEL to drive Sun 
Ray's, we have to have software that some end users - even though they are 
sysadmins - would like. Like having a recent version of rdesktop, gaim, as these 
are, not surprisingly, useful tools for us to use as part of our work.

	Might I suggest that we get a central server where people who have rolled 
update rpm's for various software (like XFce for instance) for WBEL can place, 
users test, if its ninja solid, we push them out to mirrors, so have a testing, 
stable, unstable sort of directory structure. People can mirror stable or all three.

	Its just a matter of co-ordination and someone saying I will do this and the 
rest say okay ABC do it we will pull the stuff off your system and mirror it and 
make it available for others. What say others ?

	Cheers,

	Aly.

> Random thoughts:
> 
> Before, when I was given a project to do with someone else, I would get 
> nervous.  Nervous that they wouldn't do it the way that I wanted to, or 
> wouldn't do as good of a job.  I wonder if this is why offers for help 
> have been ignored.
> 
> Maybe it's the Pandora's Box of managing it all when you open it out to 
> the world.
> 
> I wish that the maintainers would at least let us know what they're 
> thinking.  Instead of us speculating all the time, they could either say 
> "sod off", or "Let's talk about a way to improve the system".
> 

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Aly Dharshi
aly.dharshi@telus.net

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