BZ718430 - Unknown Horizons

Nelson Marques nmo.marques at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 18:17:55 UTC 2012


No dia 27 de Abril de 2012 18:44, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> escreveu:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:44:01PM -0400, Rich Mattes wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>      1) How to check who currently maintains those packages;
>>
>>
>> You can use the fedora pkgdb at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb.  To get
>> into contact with the owners of the packages you can either file bugs against
>> the packages, or email packagename-owner at fedoraproject dot org.
>>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/fife
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/enet
>
> PackageDB keeps ownership information per branch (several reasons for this:
> the owner may be different between EPEL and Fedora; the owner may want to
> orphan a package in Fedora devel but be willing to continue maintaining on
> older Fedora releases until they go EOL).
>
> The only difference between an owner and a comaintainer (someone who has all
> of the acls on the package) is that the owner is assigned to be the owner in
> bugzilla.
>
>>      2) The correct 'modus operandi' to take ownership of those packages;
>>
>>
>> You generally don't "take ownership" of a package that someone else owns in
>> Fedora, except for when the owner expresses an interest in orphaning the
>> package and passing ownership along or the owner is non-responsive.  You can,
>> however, apply to _co-maintain_ the package.  In this case, you gain rights to
>> commit to the git branch and can submit updates for a package.
>> Co-maintainership is up to the discretion of the package owner, you can apply
>> to co-maintain in the pkgdb (if you are sponsored into the packaging group,)
>> but you should speak with the package owner first.
>>
> Just one thing to add here.  Comaintainership responsibility can vary
> depending on the circumstances.  I have a few packages where a comaintainer
> and I talked and he's pretty much doing all the work.  I only work on the
> package if there's something time critical or I can contribute a patch to
> the code that the comaintainer can't.  Communication is the key to deciding
> what each person is going to do.



>
> An additional plus to comaintainership is that FESCo can sponsor you into
> the packager group if the package owner is willing to mentor you.  That
> allows more people to do package reviews for you.
>
>>      Is this OK? Should I re-open BZ718430?
>>
>>
>> You should be ok re-opening your review request and continuing the review.  You
>> should also reach out to the FIFE maintainer as was suggested in the previous
>> thread, especially if you want to co-maintain FIFE (and perhaps he can help you
>> maintain UH as well)
>>
> A hearty +1 to this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757352

Once this has been fixed :)

>
> -Toshio
>
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