Re: [gentoo-dev] net community servers, in what category?

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 23:58 +0200, Christian Parpart wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to create some ebuilds for at least one community server (represented
> by a bunch of ebuilds);
>
> So, I was looking for the right category for all of those ebuilds that belong
> to this software, however, I didn't find a proper category for each of them
> at all :(
>
> The software I am talking about is called YaCS (yet another community system)
> and consists of the following parts (that are being split up into seperate
> ebuilds):

So you're splitting this into separate ebuilds, or it comes that way
from upstream?

>
> dev-libs/libyacsutil
>     - the support library (client/server)
> community-libs/libyacs
>     - the YaCS core framework library (server)

dev-libs

> community-server/yacsd
>     - the UNIX daemon process finally serving the community

net-misc, net-www

> app-admin/yacsadmin
>     - the server console administration tool
> app-benchmarks/yb
>     - a server benchmarking tool (think of / like: ab, the apache benchmark)
> www-apache/mod_yacs
>     - the apache module that serves as the front-end for the end-users

These look good.

> community-server/yacs-meta
>     - the meta package for YaCS, in case everything has to be
>       run on a single server

net-misc or net-www

> Now, you see, I already proposed my (in my mind) ideal categories.
> The problem are two packages I couldnn't fit into currently existing
> categories.
> In fact, we even haven't any community server in portage yet (and there do
> exist quite a few).
> So, I might have a little (continuous) brain-dead and though, would like to be
> pointed to the right category for those two packages; otherwise, I'd like to
> propose those two new categories - in that case: who's the karma to initiate
> them?

You shouldn't create categories for anything less than about 10 to 20
ebuilds.  The more the better, really.

> Other community software I found (*and* are free):
>  * boo - http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~malsmith/products/boo/
>  * yChat - http://www.ychat.org/
>  * SPiN Chat System - http://chat.spin.de/en/ (dunno what kinda license it is)
>
> note: while browsing google, I found lots of commercial software of this
> subject and just a few few (serious) open sourced ones.
>
> So, finally, in what category could those packages be placed in?

Definitely not community-* as that is very much non-descriptive and
there's no need to create 2 categories for 2 packages.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux