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Help: Need Reviewers
Jul. 17th, 2007 04:33 pmHi Interweb,
Last week has been one busy week, getting all the results / scores for our students into the computer, so that the score lists mailed to the students will actually make sense. However now that I survived that its vacation! 6 weeks of rest and ... time to hack :)
One of the things I would like to accomplish this summer is to get my list of submitted but not reviewed Fedora packages down. I already posted a mail to the fedora-maintainers list asking for reviewers, but except for a reviewer for avr-libc, Thanks Michael, with little result. So now I'm trying it this way :)
First of all a group of my students, and I have been working hard to package a cross toolchain to allow development of applications for this cute Linux running device:
The entire toolchain is made up of quite a few packages, which are all in dire need of a reviewer:
* arm-gp2x-linux-binutils
Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234749
* arm-gp2x-linux-kernel-headers
Kernel headers for Cross Compiling to arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242203
* arm-gp2x-linux-gcc
Cross Compiling GNU GCC targeted at arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242206
* arm-gp2x-linux-glibc
Cross Compiled GNU C Library targeted at arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242207
* arm-gp2x-linux-SDL
Cross Compiled SDL Library targeted at arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243147
* arm-gp2x-linux-zlib
Cross Compiled zlib Library targeted at avr
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243254
I'm looking for people todo a 100% "technical" review of this, iow just check if it matches the guidelines. I'm afraid that finding a reviewer with the expertise to also check if things like the used configure flags etc are sane, is next to impossible. However I've poured a ton of time in to this. For researching how to best do this amongst other things, so I'm pretty sure everything is ok. You will just have to trust me on my blue ^H^H^H^H brown eyes for that. I've tested these packages to compile a variety of software for the involved hardware and the resulting binaries worked fine.
---
Last Saturday I've been working on gstreamer-plugins-bad (from the repo that must not be named) I've been working on getting midi and modtracker file playing working, resulting in this and this patch. However in order to be able to actually build a version with midi support, libtimidity and / or wildmidi, which I both packaged for this, first need to be reviewed and build for Fedora, so if you want to help please click the name and start reviewing.
I'm considering splitting gstreamer-plugins-bad into gstreamer-plugins-bad (Fedora) and gstreamer-plugins-bad-non-free (other repo), so that Fedora proper can have midi support and modtracker support. Before people cry wulf, remember the bad in gstreamer-plugins-bad, means that the code hasn't been properly tested / reviewed yet, once that has happened plugins from bad can go to either good or ugly, and there is no reason why the midi and modtracker plugins shouldn't go to good. If you have any opinions on splitting this up, please let me know.
---
Last Sunday and Monday I've been working on gnome-applet-sensors, which after a lengthy AWOL procedure I've taken over. I've closed all 5 open bugs against it, which included updating it to a new upstream version. This new upstream version has the ability to read the temperature of nvidia cards when using the proprietary driver (flames to /dev/null please). In order to enable this support, the GPL libXNVCtrl library is needed, which I thus packaged. The review is here, once again reviewers much appreciated.
---
And today I've packaged a small classic game I stumbled over. Getting this reviewed should not be a problem, as the Games SIG usually is very good in keeping on top of game related reviews. Still while I'm at here are the game and the data reviews. Again reviewers appreciated.
---
Well Interweb, that concludes todays blog entry, giving you a total of 11 reviews to process, when I wake up tomorrow I expect atleast 50% of these reviews to be done, anything less and I will be very disappointed :)
Last week has been one busy week, getting all the results / scores for our students into the computer, so that the score lists mailed to the students will actually make sense. However now that I survived that its vacation! 6 weeks of rest and ... time to hack :)
One of the things I would like to accomplish this summer is to get my list of submitted but not reviewed Fedora packages down. I already posted a mail to the fedora-maintainers list asking for reviewers, but except for a reviewer for avr-libc, Thanks Michael, with little result. So now I'm trying it this way :)
First of all a group of my students, and I have been working hard to package a cross toolchain to allow development of applications for this cute Linux running device:
The entire toolchain is made up of quite a few packages, which are all in dire need of a reviewer:
* arm-gp2x-linux-binutils
Cross Compiling GNU binutils targeted at arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234749
* arm-gp2x-linux-kernel-headers
Kernel headers for Cross Compiling to arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242203
* arm-gp2x-linux-gcc
Cross Compiling GNU GCC targeted at arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242206
* arm-gp2x-linux-glibc
Cross Compiled GNU C Library targeted at arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242207
* arm-gp2x-linux-SDL
Cross Compiled SDL Library targeted at arm-gp2x-linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243147
* arm-gp2x-linux-zlib
Cross Compiled zlib Library targeted at avr
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243254
I'm looking for people todo a 100% "technical" review of this, iow just check if it matches the guidelines. I'm afraid that finding a reviewer with the expertise to also check if things like the used configure flags etc are sane, is next to impossible. However I've poured a ton of time in to this. For researching how to best do this amongst other things, so I'm pretty sure everything is ok. You will just have to trust me on my blue ^H^H^H^H brown eyes for that. I've tested these packages to compile a variety of software for the involved hardware and the resulting binaries worked fine.
---
Last Saturday I've been working on gstreamer-plugins-bad (from the repo that must not be named) I've been working on getting midi and modtracker file playing working, resulting in this and this patch. However in order to be able to actually build a version with midi support, libtimidity and / or wildmidi, which I both packaged for this, first need to be reviewed and build for Fedora, so if you want to help please click the name and start reviewing.
I'm considering splitting gstreamer-plugins-bad into gstreamer-plugins-bad (Fedora) and gstreamer-plugins-bad-non-free (other repo), so that Fedora proper can have midi support and modtracker support. Before people cry wulf, remember the bad in gstreamer-plugins-bad, means that the code hasn't been properly tested / reviewed yet, once that has happened plugins from bad can go to either good or ugly, and there is no reason why the midi and modtracker plugins shouldn't go to good. If you have any opinions on splitting this up, please let me know.
---
Last Sunday and Monday I've been working on gnome-applet-sensors, which after a lengthy AWOL procedure I've taken over. I've closed all 5 open bugs against it, which included updating it to a new upstream version. This new upstream version has the ability to read the temperature of nvidia cards when using the proprietary driver (flames to /dev/null please). In order to enable this support, the GPL libXNVCtrl library is needed, which I thus packaged. The review is here, once again reviewers much appreciated.
---
And today I've packaged a small classic game I stumbled over. Getting this reviewed should not be a problem, as the Games SIG usually is very good in keeping on top of game related reviews. Still while I'm at here are the game and the data reviews. Again reviewers appreciated.
---
Well Interweb, that concludes todays blog entry, giving you a total of 11 reviews to process, when I wake up tomorrow I expect atleast 50% of these reviews to be done, anything less and I will be very disappointed :)
