Unresponsive maintainer : kanarip

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 8 January 2015 at 15:54, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:

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> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:09:02 +0200
> Yanko Kaneti <yaneti at declera.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 14:53 +0100, Marianne Lombard wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > A bug is open for perl-XML-TreePP since July (for opening a epel 7
> > > branch) with no reaction
> > > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123681)
> > > I need this package so I'm volunteer to maintain it
> >
> > This bug seems unnecessary. AFAIK all it takes to create a branch for
> > a package is a willing maintainer who's already a packager, in this
> > case you,  to make a SCM request for it in the package review request
>
> Policy does require you to contact the maintainer
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL
> It is quite inappropriate to not have the courtesy to contact the
> fedora maintainer first.
>
>
Or the policy can be revisited if potential maintainers are having problems
getting replies from current maintainers.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607878
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> >
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_SCM_admin_requests#Package_Change_Requests_for_existing_packages
> >
> > Make sure to list yourself as a "owner" of the new branch.
> Only do that after contacting the Fedora maintainer
>
> > Its perfectly understandable for a primary POC of a package on the
> > Fedora branches to not want to deal with the EPEL packaging.
>
> It is quite understandable and acceptable, but you do need to contact
> them to check first and not just go and branch a package. branching is
> not without cost, as things are setup Fedora maintainers will still get
> bug reports and email. there may also be a very valid reason for not
> branching a package.
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I thought the problem was that the maintainer was not responding (eg what
the subject line says.) Since the person is not responding..  what is
needed next.


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Stephen J Smoogen.
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