On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:52 AM Michal Domonkos <mdomonko@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to ask around if anyone would be willing to take ownership of
> the python3-urlgrabber package and its upstream repository[1]?
>
> For historical reasons, the project is de facto maintained by us, the
> DNF team (with the upstream repo hosted in our GitHub namespace).
> However, with the community's departure from YUM (which depended on
> urlgrabber) a few years back, we no longer have the incentive or
> capacity to keep the project alive, and are considering deprecating it
> in the near future, unless someone takes over.
>
> Now, urlgrabber has recently[2] been ported to Python 3, in an effort
> to maintain its legacy as a standalone general-purpose URL library,
> authored[3] by Jochen Breuer of SUSE in November, 2018.  It's the only
> component of the legacy YUM stack that wasn't dropped[4] from the
> distro in Fedora 31.  In addition to that, there currently is one last
> component in Fedora that requires the package; koji-containerbuild.
>
> That said, I'd like to address this request especially to Jochen and
> the maintainers of koji-containerbuild.  Please, let us know if you
> (or anyone, really) would be interested in the transfer.
>

Umm, don't I already own python-urlgrabber in Fedora and upstream? Not
that I would mind co-maintainers, but I thought we already did this
switchover during Fedora 31 development...




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