'newpackager' is not in FAS, or How to co-maintain a package before getting sponsored

Robin Lee cheeselee at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 29 07:09:25 UTC 2012


On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 02:00:36PM +0800, Robin Lee wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24:40PM +0800, Robin Lee wrote:
> >     > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <
> tibbs at math.uh.edu
> >     >
> >     > wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     >>>>> "RL" == Robin Lee <cheeselee at fedoraproject.org> writes:
> >     >
> >     >     RL> Hi, all I want to follow the route [1] to bring up a new
> >     >     RL> packager.
> >     >
> >     >     Then why not follow the procedure you referenced?  It tells
> you what
> >     to
> >     >     do, which involves opening a ticket in the appropriate trac
> instance.
> >     >
> >     >      - J<
> >     >
> >     > It is just the beginning at this moment. The candidate packager is
> still
> >     > learning RPM packaging  and below level that can be sponsored.
> >     >
> >     > I just thought that the 'newpackager' is the group for such kind
> of new
> >     > contributors. People in this group can have access to limited
> group of
> >     packages
> >     > and cannot own any package. But, after all, the group is not
> existing.
> >     >
> >     > So, that means new willing contributors can only co-maintain the
> package
> >     by
> >     > sending patches and filing bugs, instead of having direct commit
> >     privilege to
> >     > the Git repo?
> >     >
> >     Not at all.
> >
> >     If you are willing to mentor the new packager, then they can be
> sponsored
> >     into the packager group.
> >
> >     If you are not a sponsor yourself, you open a ticket in fesco's trac
> >     stating
> >     who you'd like to have sponosred and that you will be mentoring them
> as
> >     they
> >     comaintain which package with you.
> >
> >     -Toshio
> >
> > At this moment I don't approve him to be sponsored.
> > So at this moment, can he only send patches to me to co-maintain the
> package?
> >
> If you're unwilling to mentor him, then that is correct.
>
OK. I am willing, but he is newbie and may give up a moment later.

>
> > Can he have git commit privilege to that single package?
> >
> People in the packager group only have commit privileges to the packages
> that they own or have been granted the commit acl on.  So if he is in
> packager and only has commit acls on that single package then that's all
> that he'll have access to.
>
> -Toshio
>
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