On 04/02/18 10:27, Rohit Yadav wrote: > Hi all, (/cc cloudstack-dev) > > I'm Rohit Yadav, committer/pmc from the Apache CloudStack [1] community. > Apache CloudStack is an IaaS cloud computing platform. > > I've been maintaining and publishing the CloudStack noredist > repos [3][4] for few years now, and I would like to get them published > to the official CentOS (and other distros) repositories. > > I met Rich during Fosdem yesterday and he suggested to reach out to the > cloud-sig/list [2] to discuss how we can get CloudStack rpms into > CentOS. I understand in the past we were not very successful at that, > but I want to make a second attempt especially since we've introduced > the concept of LTS releases in CloudStack. > > I'm not sure if the devel list is the right place or if an explicit > cloud-sig list exists [2], so please advise -- > - Where may I start? > - What is the packaging/release process and how can one help become a > package maintainer? > - Advise on legal stuff around publishing of rpms (the noredist > repositories bundle non-oss jar dependencies such as those from Vmware > vim sdk etc)? > - How can the packages also be available for Fedora, may RHEL and > derivatives? > - > > Thoughts, comments? Thanks. > > Regards. > > [1] https://cloudstack.apache.org/ <https://cloudstack.apache.org/> > [2] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud > <https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud> > [3] packages.shapeblue.com/cloudstack/upstream > <http://packages.shapeblue.com/cloudstack/upstream> > [4] CloudStack packaging, spec files > etc: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/master/packaging > > Hi, That's good news, so to answer all your questions, the best would probably be to follow the SIGGuide (https://wiki.centos.org/SIGGuide) and then sync up with the SIG Chair (Rich, but it seems you already discussed with him) Welcome ! -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20180207/b01a1394/attachment-0008.sig>