RPM Project Roadmap

can anyone explain what made the change to a new domain necessary? is rpm.org not good enough? will the domain be changed again with rpm6?

greetings, eMBee.

This appears to be a fork of the rpm project. More talk and information is over at osnews.com.

It's a spork of the rpm project. Guaranteed to make more muck out of an already mucky package format.

Just what we need...

heh, this has more twists and turns than a mountain road. The "real" RPM project is at http://rpm.org/. This could be considered a fork of the previous RPM project led by Jeff Johnson, who is more famous for his ability to be annoying and uncooperative than anything else. rpm5.org is Jeff Johnson's re-fork. Though technically speaking, Red Hat has always sponsored the "real" RPM project, so perhaps rpm.org is not a fork, but a coup. :)

this has some useful links in the discussion: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=17993

LWN, as always, is excellent. This is an older but still informative article: http://lwn.net/Articles/196523/

If nothing else, read the classic bug report that shows Mr. Johnson at his finest: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119185

edit: This is a caustic response to Mr. Johnson's moving RPM development to a blog: http://www.geekcomix.com/snh/oldnews/2005-Jun-news.shtml

So at least rpm5.org is moving development to a proper platform with version control, mailing lists, and a bugtracker.

thank you for those links. very insightful!

greetings, eMBee.