Re: [PLUG] May Speakers?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 13:14:00 -0400
> From: Jay Dobies<jason.dobies@redhat.com>

> I'm the team lead and architect for Pulp, a software repository
> management application that's being used, among other places, as the
> content subsystem in Red Hat's System Engine product.
[...]
> I've hesitated to present it because a.) I have yet to actually make it
> to a meeting and haven't met anyone and b.) I get the impression that

Don't sweat that.


> this group is largely Ubuntu based, but I may be wrong about that. That

Quite of a lot of us do use Debian & Ubuntu, but there is a very vocal 
Gentoo minority (hi Rich :), and we do use and enjoy other flavors. 
Some of us, myself included, use a lot of RHEL/CentOS at $WORK too, 
where it sounds like Pulp would be quite interesting.


> said, while Pulp's version 1 release was entirely based around RPM
> concepts, in version 2 I've rearchitected it to support pluggable
> content types for non-RPM content, DEB packages being one of the first
> on my radar.

Yeah, APT/deb support would be very cool.


> If there's interest, I can do a presentation/demo at an upcoming West
> meeting. As I'm very much on the developer side of things and not an
> admin, any input y'all had to offer would be golden for me.

+1

Later,
JP
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