[CentOS-devel] progress?

Fri Feb 18 18:19:47 UTC 2011
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>

On 02/18/2011 06:50 PM, Steve Meyers wrote:
> On 2/18/11 10:46 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>> So the process doesn't scale, and everyone waiting for the next
>> release or security update feels powerless to help there where it could be
>> useful because the tools, the process and the changes are hidden.
>
> I would like it if I had access to make my own build environment that is
> the same as what CentOS uses, so I could get to know the process they
> use better.  Then I would be able to start off by contributing patches
> and such.  I don't have anywhere near the experience of Dag, but I've
> done a lot of RPM building in my previous jobs.
>
> Being able to replicate the process would help new people to get involved.
>

It has been said several times (but that would be useful to have it 
described on the wiki though , and everybody agrees on that fact ...) 
that the tools are the ones used by Fedora :
Plague : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Plague
Mock : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock

Fabian Arrotin