APAC Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's wishlist clean up

[Ankur Sinha]

Hi folks,

I propose a simple web-FAD to clean up the package maintainer's
wishlist[1]. It shouldn't really take up more than an hour if we have a
few people working on this.

Q. What is the wishlist?
A. It's a list of packages that fedora users would like to see in the
fedora repositories. Unfortunately, the list is not well maintained and
thus, gives inaccurate information to package maintainers.

Q. Benefits of the clean up?
A. Package maintainers will benefit from a well maintained wish-list.
It's a good place to direct prospective package maintainers too, when
they're looking for packages to get started with.

Q. How much time will it take?
A. Maybe an hour and a half, two at the most.

Q. What do I need to carry?
A. A connection to the interweb, a web browser, IRC client. Optional but
recommended: Pizza, bacon, coffee, beer, $food, $music.

Q. Why APAC specific?
A. Folks from one region are more likely to be available at a certain
time. Any one interested is more than welcome to join in, as always. :)

Q. What do I need to know?
A. Reading/writing/wiki editing. Use of package manager tools, bugzilla,
packagedb. Should have FAS account to be able to edit wiki.

Q. What do I need to do?
A. Simple workflow:
- Pick up a package listed in the wishlist
- Check if it is already packaged, or if a review ticket has already
been filed on bugzilla
- Modify wiki page accordingly.

Q. What can I learn during this FAD?
A. Using yum/$package_manager; using bugzilla; package maintainers
process; meet people, get to know your community folks, above all, *have
fun*.

Q. Future plans?
A. See if anyone would like to take over the responsibility of
maintaining the wish list. We could even repeat the FAD every month or
two.

I haven't thought of a time yet. APAC folks, are you up for it? Please
reply with a date and time that is convenient to you. Sometime this
week, Wednesday/Thursday would be nice. 

Please forward the e-mail to other APAC regional mailing lists. I'm
cc'ing the Join and India lists.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist
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[Truong Anh Tuan]

----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Ankur Sinha" <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  To: "Fedora Ambassadors" <ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Cc: "Fedora Join Mailing list" <fedora-join(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;,
> "Fedora India" <india(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 12:26:52 PM
>  Subject: [Ambassadors] APAC Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's	wishlist
> clean up
>  
>  I propose a simple web-FAD to clean up the package maintainer's
>  wishlist[1]. It shouldn't really take up more than an hour if we have
>  a few people working on this. 
This would be a cool idea. I will attend.

<snipped>

>  I haven't thought of a time yet. APAC folks, are you up for it?
> Please
>  reply with a date and time that is convenient to you. Sometime this
>  week, Wednesday/Thursday would be nice. 
I have created a Doodle [2] for voting time.

[2] http://www.doodle.com/2einn7265vwvg7pw

Kind regards, 
Tuan

[Tristan Santore]

On 29/10/12 06:55, Truong Anh. Tuan wrote:
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ankur Sinha" <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt;
> > To: "Fedora Ambassadors" <ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
> > Cc: "Fedora Join Mailing list" <fedora-join(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;,
> "Fedora India" <india(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
> > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 12:26:52 PM
> > Subject: [Ambassadors] APAC Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's	wishlist
> clean up
> >
> > I propose a simple web-FAD to clean up the package maintainer's
> > wishlist[1]. It shouldn't really take up more than an hour if we have
> > a few people working on this.
>  
>  This would be a cool idea. I will attend.
>  
>  <snipped>
>  
> > I haven't thought of a time yet. APAC folks, are you up for it? Please
> > reply with a date and time that is convenient to you. Sometime this
> > week, Wednesday/Thursday would be nice.
>  
>  I have created a Doodle [2] for voting time.
>  
>  [2] http://www.doodle.com/2einn7265vwvg7pw
>  
>  Kind regards, 
>  Tuan 
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Could you define
clean-up please ? Because the list also serves as
reference for refused packages. If we have to go through the same legal
issues again, it is a waste of time.

So, a little explanation here would be desirable, as to exactly you want
to clean-up and why.

Thank you.

Regards,

Tristan

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[Ankur Sinha]

On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 07:26 +0000, Tristan Santore wrote:
>  Could you define clean-up please ? Because the list also serves as
>  reference for refused packages. If we have to go through the same
>  legal
>  issues again, it is a waste of time. 
Hi Tristan,

We will not remove applications which have been refused due to legal
issues. Only applications that have been included in fedora but are
still on the page will be removed (Or a comment added stating that
they've been added to fedora, if you think removing them is a bad idea)

>  
>  So, a little explanation here would be desirable, as to exactly you
>  want
>  to clean-up and why.
>  
>   
I'd like the wishlist page to be better maintained. I don't think it is.
Packages dropped on the list stay there forever, even if they've been
packaged. A little housekeeping, that's all. No world changing
transformations, I assure you.
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[Truong Anh Tuan]

----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Truong Anh. Tuan" <tuanta(a)iwayvietnam.com&gt;
>  To: ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 1:55:33 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] APAC Web FAD proposal -> Package	maintainer's	wishlist
> clean up
>  
>  > I haven't thought of a time yet. APAC folks, are you up for it?
>  > Please reply with a date and time that is convenient to you.
>  > Sometime this week, Wednesday/Thursday would be nice.
>  
>  I have created a Doodle [2] for voting time.
>  
>  [2] http://www.doodle.com/2einn7265vwvg7pw 
Hi Ankur,

There are 6 votes casted.

6 of 6 voted for Wednesday but it was yesterday :)
5 of 6 voted for Sunday but you did not vote for that day.

Would you like to delay this Web FAD to next week?

Rgds,
Tuan

[Ankur Sinha]

On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 10:14 +0700, Truong Anh. Tuan wrote:
>  Hi Ankur,
>  
>  There are 6 votes casted.
>  
>  6 of 6 voted for Wednesday but it was yesterday :)
>  5 of 6 voted for Sunday but you did not vote for that day.
>  
>  Would you like to delay this Web FAD to next week?  
Hi tuanta, folks,

I'm sorry. I completely forgot to check doodle.

As we discussed on the IRC a few days back, I was thinking of changing
the format of the FAD somewhat. Here's what I had in mind:

- Collect people ready to participate (We already seem to have this on
doodle). Let's say we have "n" volunteers.
- Appoint one person in-charge of the wiki editing task. The rest "n-1"
are "reviewers"
- Divide the wishlist into "n-1" parts
- Each reviewer picks up one part and goes through the list
- We decide a period of 3-4 days (or even a week) for task completion,
after which the reviewers mail their results to the wiki editor. 
- Wiki editor updates the wiki page.

How does this sound?  If it looks good, I'll go ahead and make a
detailed plan for the "modified FAD" and send it to the list. Please let
me know.
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[David Ramsey]

Hello Everyone,



Greetings. :)

Thank you for your e-mails.  :)


>  Would you like to delay this Web FAD to next week?  
Good question.  :)

>  I'm sorry. I completely forgot to check doodle. 
Should another doodle survey be done?

>  As we discussed on the IRC a few days back, I was thinking of
> changing the format of the FAD somewhat. Here's what I had in mind:
>  - Collect people ready to participate (We already seem to have this on doodle). Let's
> say we have "n" volunteers.
>  - Appoint one person in-charge of the wiki editing task. The rest "n-1" are
> "reviewers"
>  - Divide the wishlist into "n-1" parts
>  - Each reviewer picks up one part and goes through the list
>  - We decide a period of 3-4 days (or even a week) for task completion, after which the
> reviewers mail their results to the wiki editor. 
>  - Wiki editor updates the wiki page. 
>  How does this sound?  If it looks good, I'll go ahead and make a
> detailed plan for the "modified FAD" and send it to the list. Please let me
> know. 
Sounds like a plan.  :)

I strongly believe that the Fedora Web FAD Proposal will have support.  :)

My mind thinks that unfortunately having the word "APAC" will highly likely not
be to your advantage.  Food for thought.  :v)

Please have a Great Fedora day and/or evening! :~)



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Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's wishlist clean up

[Ankur Sinha]

Hi folks,

I've put up a wiki page for the wish list clean up. I apologise for the
delay. 

Note: Since we're doing it over a period of days, and not over the IRC,
it isn't specific to a region any more. 

Please add your name to the list of volunteers if you're interested.
We'll begin work according to the timeline on the wiki page.

[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha/FAD:Web_Cleanup_wishlist
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Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's wishlist clean up

[David Ramsey]

Hello Everyone,

>  Note: Since we're doing it over a period of days, and not over
> the IRC, 
it isn't specific to a region any more.

Super cool and a very worthy effort to support!!!  :)

Take Care
Sincerely,
- David -

From: sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com
To: ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:44:23 +1100
Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Web FAD proposal -> Package maintainer's wishlist clean
up

Hi folks,
 
I've put up a wiki page for the wish list clean up. I apologise for the
delay. 
 
Note: Since we're doing it over a period of days, and not over the IRC,
it isn't specific to a region any more. 
 
Please add your name to the list of volunteers if you're interested.
We'll begin work according to the timeline on the wiki page.
 
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha/FAD:Web_Cleanup_wishlist
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 16:26 +1100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>  Hi folks,
>  
>  I propose a simple web-FAD to clean up the package maintainer's
>  wishlist[1]. It shouldn't really take up more than an hour if we have
>  a
>  few people working on this. 
Hi folks,

I'm happy to report that we've completed the work we had taken up. More
info here[1]. The wishlist, with it's new look is still here[2]

I'm grateful to everyone who took time out and participated. :)

[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha/FAD:Web_Cleanup_wishlist

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist
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