It's more common to see this role defined as Release Engineer, or sometimes Build/Install Master. At least in corporate development projects. It's part of the Software Configuration Management discipline. It's also what I've started to do where I work. :) > -----Original Message----- > From: vanilla-list-admin at us.netrek.org > [mailto:vanilla-list-admin at us.netrek.org]On Behalf Of James Cameron > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:19 PM > To: vanilla-list at us.netrek.org > Subject: Re: [Vanilla List] [zu22 at andrew.cmu.edu: Re: Netrek Promotion > Idea] > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:51:30PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote: > > what exactly does a packaging expert do? > > They recommend modifications to an open source project so > that it can be > packaged using whatever packaging tool they are experts in. > > They first work out how the product is compiled, installed and run. > Then they figure out how to adjust the sequence so that it fits the > rules of the distribution they are packaging for. They > usually come up > with a directory containing files that help with the packaging, and > may even make a few recommendations to the project team to simplify > packaging of future versions. > > They then generate test packages, ask a few people to try them out, > then final packages and submit them to their distribution authority. > > > u mean converting our vanilla src tree (or blessed binary w/ RSA > > src) into a RPM and ftp'ing this to some redhat upload site? > > That's a fairly succinct description. ;-) > > While I would define an open source hacker as someone who > contributes to > open source projects at a software engineering level ... a packaging > expert is a sort of proto-hacker or hacker-wannabe who seeks > reward from > the open source community based on their persistence in packaging. > > See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html for how > to become > an open source hacker. > > -- > James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ vanilla-list mailing list vanilla-list at us.netrek.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-list