On 01.12.22 23:16, Sérgio Basto wrote:
On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 19:31 +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 19:10 +0100, Sandro Mani wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> The moby-engine package [1] (also known as Docker) has been
>>>> orphaned in Fedora and is looking for a new maintainer. The
>>>> waiting period will soon be over and the package will be
>>>> retired
>>>> if nobody steps in.
>>>>
>>>> This means that the package will be unavailable starting with
>>>> the
>>>> next release of Fedora (Fedora 38) that should happen in
>>>> approximately 5 to 6 months.
>>>>
>>>> If you are using this package and are interested in helping
>>>> maintaining it, now is the time to come forward!
>>> I'm using docker for $dayjob and would be willing to help out a
>>> bit, but I will not be the main maintainer, as I don't feel
>>> comfortable taking such a huge package and lack the cycles for
>>> that.
>> As I also heavily use docker for my dayjob, and I see that moby-
>> engine
>> is still unmaintained (and I guess a couple of days away from
>> retirement), I intend to give it a shot to keep the package alive.
>> I
>> don't have expertise in this specific field beyond regular docker
>> and
>> docker-compose usage, so clearly help is very much appreciated. I'd
>> proceed by taking the package by the end of the week if it still
>> unmaintained at that point.
>>
> I also would like keep moby-engine (also known as Docker) and I will
> help if you need .
>
> After analyze go packages, I think we got the same kind of problems
> of
> nodejs, which is, too many packages and each package has very few
> lines
> of code and make other packages have enormous number of dependencies
> .
> In conclusion to maintain it, we will spend a lot of time. I'm
> thinking
> for example docker should include all other specific deps like
> golang-
> github-containerd-* , golang-github-moby-*
>
> So we should try to solve this problem. I'm against this
> fragmentation
> of the packages, i.e. in packages guidelines allow may have different
> sources same package .
>
>
I took moby-engine and fedora-dockerfiles because orphans [1] report
alert for more than 6 weeks orphan
Thanks!