Re: EPEL and Fedora relationship...

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:08:25 -0600
Dmitry Makovey <dmitry(a)athabascau.ca&gt; wrote:

>  
>  Hi everybody,
>  
>  about a month ago I've submited my patches to
>  
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845394
>  
>  in hopes that that would make it easy to bring newer pgpool over to
>  EPEL, subsequently to platforms I care for on a daily basis - RHEL
>  boxes. However I got no reply there whatsoever for a month, should I
>  be following a different path making packages shipped with Fedora
>  more EPEL-friendly?  
No, that seems reasonable... the maintainer might just be busy and
unable to deal with it yet. 

You could try sending them a polite email directly asking if they could
take a look, or note in the bug that it's been a while... 
>  
>  Shall I contact (last) package maintainer directly? Original author
>  is the one Bug is assigned to. Not sure whether I even should be
>  posting here, but this place seemed to be near the top of my choices
>  of where to seek advise. 
Sure, you can. I'd keep such communication simple and polite... 
"hey, noticed there wasn't much activity on bug foo, do you know if you
might get a chance to look at it soon" , etc. 

kevin