Hello folks!
I would like to become a maintainer/packager of package scrot [1] that was dropped [2] last year. (Disclaimer: I have experience with maintaining some packages in COPR but not with actually maintaining packages in the official Fedora repos. I'm completely new to this.)
In the docs there is a section about Claiming Ownership of an Orphaned Package [3] but I'm not sure whether this still applies if the package was already dropped.
Should I follow the New Package Process for New Contributors [4] as if the package was completely new?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards
[1] https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/... [3] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Orphaning_P... [4] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/New_Package_Process...
In the docs there is a section about Claiming Ownership of an Orphaned Package
You were looking almost in the right place. There's a separate section about claiming retired packages. [1]
tl;dr: If it was retired for more than 8 weeks, it needs to go through the Package Review process again. After the review is approved, instead of filing a "new repo" ticket, you need to file a "claim ownership" ticket.
[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_...
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 10:59 AM Artur Frenszek-Iwicki < suve@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
In the docs there is a section about Claiming Ownership of an Orphaned
Package You were looking almost in the right place. There's a separate section about claiming retired packages. [1]
I missed that. Thank you Artur! Now I know what to do next.
tl;dr: If it was retired for more than 8 weeks, it needs to go through the Package Review process again. After the review is approved, instead of filing a "new repo" ticket, you need to file a "claim ownership" ticket.
[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_... _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure