Self Introduction

[Ben Nemec]

Hi,

I'm looking to become a co-maintainer on at least one package (and likely more in the
near future), and I see one of the steps is an introduction to the list, so here goes:

I was recently hired by Red Hat to work on the OpenStack project, and I've been
involved to one extent or another with Linux and open source for about ten years now.  I
haven't done a ton of packaging work, but I did release rpms for one of my projects so
I have some experience with it.

My first package is up for review here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016943 and it's looking like I will be
getting more involved in the packaging of OpenStack-related components soon, so I look
forward to working with the Fedora community on that as well.  And of course I will
continue to scratch any itches that come up now that I'm using Fedora as my primary OS
for work. :-)

Thanks.

-Ben

[Matthias Runge]

On 11/10/2013 06:48 PM, Ben Nemec wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I'm looking to become a co-maintainer on at least one package (and
>  likely more in the near future), and I see one of the steps is an
>  introduction to the list, so here goes:
>  
>  I was recently hired by Red Hat to work on the OpenStack project, and
>  I've been involved to one extent or another with Linux and open
>  source for about ten years now.  I haven't done a ton of packaging
>  work, but I did release rpms for one of my projects so I have some
>  experience with it.
>  
>  My first package is up for review here:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016943 and it's looking
>  like I will be getting more involved in the packaging of
>  OpenStack-related components soon, so I look forward to working with
>  the Fedora community on that as well.  And of course I will continue
>  to scratch any itches that come up now that I'm using Fedora as my
>  primary OS for work. :-)
>   
Welcome to the team!

Please note, you don't need to submit a package for review, if you'd
like to become a co-maintainer and the current maintainer will mentor you.

Matthias

[Ben Nemec]

----- Original Message -----
>  On 11/10/2013 06:48 PM, Ben Nemec wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I'm looking to become a co-maintainer on at least one package (and
>  > likely more in the near future), and I see one of the steps is an
>  > introduction to the list, so here goes:
>  > 
>  > I was recently hired by Red Hat to work on the OpenStack project, and
>  > I've been involved to one extent or another with Linux and open
>  > source for about ten years now.  I haven't done a ton of packaging
>  > work, but I did release rpms for one of my projects so I have some
>  > experience with it.
>  > 
>  > My first package is up for review here:
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016943 and it's looking
>  > like I will be getting more involved in the packaging of
>  > OpenStack-related components soon, so I look forward to working with
>  > the Fedora community on that as well.  And of course I will continue
>  > to scratch any itches that come up now that I'm using Fedora as my
>  > primary OS for work. :-)
>  > 
>  Welcome to the team!
>  
>  Please note, you don't need to submit a package for review, if you'd
>  like to become a co-maintainer and the current maintainer will mentor you. 
As I understand it, the original maintainer of the package isn't very active anymore
(if at all), so I'm not sure that's going to be an option.  The bug I opened for
the new version has been sitting for over a month assigned to the current maintainer and
there's been no response.  Is there a policy on transferring ownership of an abandoned
package?

-Ben

[Christopher Meng]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Ben Nemec <bnemec(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  As I understand it, the original maintainer of the package isn't
> very active anymore (if at all), so I'm not sure that's going to be an option. 
> The bug I opened for the new version has been sitting for over a month assigned to the
> current maintainer and there's been no response.  Is there a policy on transferring
> ownership of an abandoned package? 
See:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers

--

Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

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[Ben Nemec]

----- Original Message -----
>  On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Ben Nemec <bnemec(a)redhat.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  
>  > As I understand it, the original maintainer of the package isn't very
>  > active anymore (if at all), so I'm not sure that's going to be an option.
>  > The bug I opened for the new version has been sitting for over a month
>  > assigned to the current maintainer and there's been no response.  Is there
>  > a policy on transferring ownership of an abandoned package?
>  
>  See:
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers 
Thanks, I'll get started on that.

-Ben