On 08/10/2016 10:38 AM, Geoffrey Marr wrote:
Hi everyone,
My name is Geoff Marr and I am recently new (May) to Fedora. I have several
years of Linux experience before that, starting with Mandrake Linux 9 back in
'03. I also have a background in electronics engineering and since I have
moved to working in software professionally, don't get to use my hardware
experience all that much. That is where I became aware of the Fedora
Electronic Lab (FEL) and with it, how comps.xml and dnf groups work. I have
attempted to contact the owner of FEL, but he hasn't been active since 2014
and as such, many of the packages in the FEL comps.xml are outdated or need
extra dependencies to work. I have cloned the F25 comps.xml and edited the
group for FEL with the required additional packages, but I do not have
permissions to push the new comps.xml. Is there a process to getting a change
approved that I should go though? Also, how can I go about getting the
required permissions to push the comps.xml to the Pagure page?
FEL is a great product but without maintenance the quality suffers. I am glad
to maintain this particular group until such a time as the owner returns or
the group is passed on to something/someone else. Any help here would be
great. I'm glad to be here and also happy to help in any way that I can, even
on things unrelated to this particular issue. Let me know if I can do
anything to help.
Hi Geoff! The normal approach here would be to create a fork of the fedora-comps
repository on Pagure under your own account, then make your changes and push
them to your fork, then once they're ready you can issue a pull request which
notifies the comps maintainers to look at your changes and merge them if they
look good.
I can help walk you through this over IRC if you like.