#fedora-fad Meeting

Meeting summary

1. 1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010#The_optional_.27late_late_show.27_2 (mchua, 00:36:54)
   
   
2. prelude to the late late show (mchua, 00:47:27)
   
3. Late Late Show - What we will cover tonight. (ke4qqq, 00:50:47)
   1. rpmdev-newspec is a useful command that generates a skeleton spec file (mchua, 00:56:58)
   2. making an rpm isn't hard; that means making a specfile that rpmbuild can read. Following the packaging guidelines is the hard part. (mchua, 00:57:20)
   3. rpmlint is a useful tool to check for bugs in your spec file, binary RPMs, and SRPMs. (mchua, 01:00:10)
   4. Release numbering is important, refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines (stickster, 01:02:32)
   5. %{foo} are macros (rrix, 01:03:36)
   6. %(something) is an evaluated shell command (stickster, 01:04:03)
   7. Licenses should match the license of the code (don't forget to look for all the licenses) (stickster, 01:07:09)
   8. License codes for spec files are found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing (stickster, 01:07:22)
   9. http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/ (rrix, 01:26:09)
   10. stickster did a bunch of annotation of the spec file (stickster, 01:57:47)
   11. stickster's annotation is not nearly as good as what you find in spot's tutorial (stickster, 01:58:23)
   12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/PHP#NamingScheme (ke4qqq, 03:05:41)
   13. http://blog.melchua.com/2010/03/15/marketing-fad-day-2-brand-folks-visit-actionability-brainstorm/ (mchua, 05:23:31)
   14. http://fpaste.org/u0bR/ (ke4qqq, 13:13:08)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. rrix (83)
2. mchua (80)
3. ke4qqq (44)
4. stickster (30)
5. hiemanshu (17)
6. zodbot (13)
7. threethirty (13)
8. ianweller (8)
9. VileGent (8)
10. heffer (7)
11. rbergeron (5)
12. wonderer (3)
13. herlo (2)
14. rdieter (1)
15. spevack (1)
16. yn1v (1)
17. rrix|konv (1)