Two questions:
1. I've googled[1] for an authoritative place to find out who maintains what package but I can't seem to find a consistent source. What's the proper way to find out who maintains a package?
2. Once I know this, what's the proper channel for contacting a maintainer? Is it bad form to contact them directly using their email address?
The reason I ask is occasionally there are "stable" versions of software that seem to take a long time to make their way into the repositories. My intent isn't to "bug" them so much is ask what's needed to get the new version and offer assistance in testing.
Maybe it's the right way but I've never liked putting in bug reports to request new versions of software (unless it's needed by another package and therefore really is a problem).
Thanks, Richard
On 09/11/10 15:44, Richard Shaw wrote:
Two questions:
- I've googled[1] for an authoritative place to find out who
maintains what package but I can't seem to find a consistent source. What's the proper way to find out who maintains a package?
owner-foo@fp.o
where foo is the package you are talking about.
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:01:57 +0000, Frank wrote:
On 09/11/10 15:44, Richard Shaw wrote:
Two questions:
- I've googled[1] for an authoritative place to find out who
maintains what package but I can't seem to find a consistent source. What's the proper way to find out who maintains a package?
owner-foo@fp.o
where foo is the package you are talking about.
That's backwards, isn't it?
PACKAGE-owner@fp.o
where PACKAGE is the src.rpm package name. Further,
http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/PACKAGE
is one convenient way to display the package's list of open bugs, the package's list of maintainers, a direct link into bugzilla, and more stuff.
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:44:41 -0600 Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
Two questions:
- I've googled[1] for an authoritative place to find out who
maintains what package but I can't seem to find a consistent source. What's the proper way to find out who maintains a package?
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/
- Once I know this, what's the proper channel for contacting a
maintainer? Is it bad form to contact them directly using their email address?
Yes. I would suggest filing a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com instead.
The reason I ask is occasionally there are "stable" versions of software that seem to take a long time to make their way into the repositories. My intent isn't to "bug" them so much is ask what's needed to get the new version and offer assistance in testing.
Maybe it's the right way but I've never liked putting in bug reports to request new versions of software (unless it's needed by another package and therefore really is a problem).
It's fine. You can preface the subject with "RFE" (request for enhancement) and most maintainers will know that means it's a enhancement rather than bug request.
Filing it as a bug means that all the maintainer(s) of the package see it (they are cc'ed) as well as anyone who takes over the package while it's being looked at, as well as anyone who has input on it. much much better than mailing a single maintainer where the email could be lost.
kevin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 09:57:07 -0700, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
It's fine. You can preface the subject with "RFE" (request for enhancement) and most maintainers will know that means it's a enhancement rather than bug request.
Also once the ticket is created, you can add the futurefeature keyword. (If you have special access to bugzilla, you can add the keyword at bug creation.)
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:44:41 -0600 Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
Two questions:
- I've googled[1] for an authoritative place to find out who
maintains what package but I can't seem to find a consistent source. What's the proper way to find out who maintains a package?
Interesting, I tried searching for "backuppc" but it did not return any hits...
Richard
On 9 November 2010 11:18, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:44:41 -0600 Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
Two questions:
- I've googled[1] for an authoritative place to find out who
maintains what package but I can't seem to find a consistent source. What's the proper way to find out who maintains a package?
Interesting, I tried searching for "backuppc" but it did not return any hits...
You need to search packages, by default applications are searched. I think applications here refers to desktop apps for daily use.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/BackupPC
Richard
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