Processing Review Requests

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

I would like to know:

1. If there is a comprehensive contact list of Fedora Packagers who
are allowed to sponsor packages? Is the list available somewhere that
new joinees can use, and contact Fedora packagers? or is it always
that whenever a Sponsor looks into FE-NEEDSPONSOR review requests in
bugzilla, the package is reviewed?

2. Is there a queue of review requests that is maintained, say, for
example a review-request that has not been reviewed for a month,
should be given first priority or is there any criteria as such? or is
it left to the Packagers?

3. If there is a SIG, and exists a group of Packagers who can sponsor
a package within the SIG, how do they coordinate as to which packages
need to be reviewed first, or in what order?

Appreciate any inputs in this regard,

Thanks!

SK

-- 
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "SK" == Shakthi Kannan
> <shakthimaan(a)gmail.com&gt; writes: 
SK> 1. If there is a comprehensive contact list of Fedora Packagers who
SK> are allowed to sponsor packages?

The account system knows.  Just look for the "packager" group, type
"sponsor".

SK> Is there a queue of review requests that is maintained, say, for
SK> example a review-request that has not been reviewed for a month,
SK> should be given first priority or is there any criteria as such? or
SK> is it left to the Packagers?

There's no policy for giving priority.  The review queue is at
http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html

SK> 3. If there is a SIG, and exists a group of Packagers who can
SK> sponsor a package within the SIG, how do they coordinate as to which
SK> packages need to be reviewed first, or in what order?

I would suppose they would communicate with each other in some fashion.
That kind of thing isn't going to be regulated by any policy.

 - J<

[Susi Lehtola]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 21:21 +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I would like to know: 
This message is off-topic to this list. Redirecting discussion to
fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com.

>  1. If there is a comprehensive contact list of Fedora Packagers who
>  are allowed to sponsor packages? Is the list available somewhere that
>  new joinees can use, and contact Fedora packagers? or is it always
>  that whenever a Sponsor looks into FE-NEEDSPONSOR review requests in
>  bugzilla, the package is reviewed? 
Yes, you can look in FAS who have sponsor status in the Packager group.
Normally sponsors look for review requests needing sponsors, but if
you've been waiting for very long you can mail fedora-devel-list and ask
for someone to have a look at your package.

>  2. Is there a queue of review requests that is maintained, say, for
>  example a review-request that has not been reviewed for a month,
>  should be given first priority or is there any criteria as such? or is
>  it left to the Packagers? 
Not especially, but the review bugs have bug numbers that are in
increasing order in time, so older reviews have smaller numbers. Picking
what to review is up to the packager.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org

[Jon Stanley]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  1. If there is a comprehensive contact list of Fedora Packagers who
>  are allowed to sponsor packages? Is the list available somewhere that
>  new joinees can use, and contact Fedora packagers? or is it always
>  that whenever a Sponsor looks into FE-NEEDSPONSOR review requests in
>  bugzilla, the package is reviewed? 
Any member of the packager group may review a package for an existing
packager.  They also may (and are encouraged to) do informal reviews
of packages from non-sponsored packagers.

The list of existing sponsors may be found at
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/members/packager/*/sponsor

>  2. Is there a queue of review requests that is maintained, say, for
>  example a review-request that has not been reviewed for a month,
>  should be given first priority or is there any criteria as such? or is
>  it left to the Packagers? 
Besides the normal bugzilla search? I don't think there's such a
queue.  There's a report that comes out every so often on package
review stats, but no queue as such.

>  3. If there is a SIG, and exists a group of Packagers who can
> sponsor
>  a package within the SIG, how do they coordinate as to which packages
>  need to be reviewed first, or in what order? 
They do this within their own control - maybe on their mailing list,
maybe on a wiki page, etc.  There is no "one way" that a SIG has to
operate.