How to take ownership of orphaned package: ddclient

[Kees de Jong]

Hi,



I would like to take over this orphaned package:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/orphaned/
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/ddclient/

According to this webpage I should notify this email list:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers

I have no RPM packaging experience yet. That's why I want to take over
an orphaned
package to my liking and learn what's already been done. I'm already
reading the package maintainer documentation. How should I proceed since I'm
not a developer yet and can't change the ownership in the package
database.




Thanks,
Kees de Jong

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:34:01 +0100
Kees de Jong <keesdejong(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>  
>  
>  
>  I would like to take over this orphaned package:
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/orphaned/
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/ddclient/
>  
>  According to this webpage I should notify this email list:
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers
>  
>  I have no RPM packaging experience yet. That's why I want to take over
>  an orphaned
>  package to my liking and learn what's already been done. I'm already
>  reading the package maintainer documentation. How should I proceed
>  since I'm not a developer yet and can't change the ownership in the
>  package database. 
You will need to convince a sponsor to sponsor you. 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_gro...

Many sponsors like to see you put together a package for review or
'pre' review existing packages in the review queue to show that you
know what you are doing. 

kevin

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:57:14 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

>  You will need to convince a sponsor to sponsor you. 
>  
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_gro...
>  
>  Many sponsors like to see you put together a package for review or
>  'pre' review existing packages in the review queue to show that you
>  know what you are doing.  
Btw, several sponsors have been burnt by someone new wanting to take over
a single orphaned (or even deprecated) package, only to give up shortly
afterwards without any notification. :(  So, a positive attitude in
general and not getting upset too easily by other changes in the dist is
a plus if you are serious about becoming a contributor.

[Christopher Meng]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:57:14 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>
> > You will need to convince a sponsor to sponsor you.
> >
> >
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_gro...
> >
> > Many sponsors like to see you put together a package for review or
> > 'pre' review existing packages in the review queue to show that you
> > know what you are doing.
>
>  Btw, several sponsors have been burnt by someone new wanting to take over
>  a single orphaned (or even deprecated) package, only to give up shortly
>  afterwards without any notification. :(  So, a positive attitude in
>  general and not getting upset too easily by other changes in the dist is
>  a plus if you are serious about becoming a contributor. 
I will take it back as I was an admin of this package. Incidentally,
should I go through the review process again?

Thanks.

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 08:07:37PM +0800, Christopher Meng wrote:
>  On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Michael Schwendt
> <mschwendt(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:57:14 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  >
>  >> You will need to convince a sponsor to sponsor you.
>  >>
>  >>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_gro...
>  >>
>  >> Many sponsors like to see you put together a package for review or
>  >> 'pre' review existing packages in the review queue to show that you
>  >> know what you are doing.
>  >
>  > Btw, several sponsors have been burnt by someone new wanting to take over
>  > a single orphaned (or even deprecated) package, only to give up shortly
>  > afterwards without any notification. :(  So, a positive attitude in
>  > general and not getting upset too easily by other changes in the dist is
>  > a plus if you are serious about becoming a contributor.
>  
>  I will take it back as I was an admin of this package. Incidentally,
>  should I go through the review process again?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers...
does not say anything like that.

Kees,
if you still decide to become a maintainer, when you get sponsored,
you can apply for co-maintainership of ddclient. I'm sure cicku will
be happy to have a second pair of hands.

Best,
Zbyszek