Taking ownership of html2text on EPEL6

Troy Dawson tdawson at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 19:45:10 UTC 2015


On 02/25/2015 10:23 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 25.2.2015 v 17:18 Troy Dawson napsal(a):
>> On 01/09/2015 02:41 PM, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I will be taking ownership of html2text on EPEL6.
>>> I am already the maintainer for EPEL7, but I missed the notification
>>> that the EPEL6 version was being orphaned because of filters.
>>> Troy Dawson
>>>
>> Hi All,
>> This has turned out to be much more painful than the documentation [1]
>> would have you believe.
>>
>> Anyway, I've eventually managed to become the maintainer for EPEL6, but
>> my problem now is that it's blocked.  I cannot build the package.
>>
>> Can someone unblock html2text on epel6 and/or point me to the
>> documentation that says how to unblock a package.
>>
>> Thank You
>> Troy
>>
>> p.s. If someone wants to talk with me about updating the documentation,
>> I can talk to you about the pain points.  But I didn't want that to be
>> the focus of this email.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#Claiming_Ownership_of_an_Orphaned_Package_Procedure
> 
> Quoting from [1]:
> 
>> 5. Request that the Release Engineering team
> <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering> unblock the package
> for the releases that the package should be un-retired for via their
> trac instance <https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket>. In this
> request, please post a link to the completed re-review and clearly
> specify which branches should be unblocked.
> 
> So you were are on the right path.
> 
> 
> Vít
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#Claiming_Ownership_of_a_Retired_Package
> 
> 

Thank you Vit, that was exactly what I was looking for.  I don't know
why I missed that.

Troy



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