Unresponsive maintainer : kanarip

[Yanko Kaneti]

On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 16:54 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:09:02 +0200
> Yanko Kaneti <yaneti at declera.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

I have't seen that policy, but now that I've read it it seem misguided.
My thinking is:
- If the Fedora maintainer cared and there was no technical reason the 
 branches would already be there.
- Most Fedora maintainers know well enough if there is or isn't any 
technical reason.
- "I am too busy and I'll get to it later" - is no good excuse for 
blocking people willing to do the work.
- "I beleive this package is not suitable for an LTS release, so I'll 
block it" - is just hubris.
- Lets not put red tape for more people to do the work in a place 
where good sense should be more than enough to prevent conflict.


> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607878
> > 
> > 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.

>From what I've seen the new pkgdb interface makes it very clear who is 
responsible for any particular branch.

Regards
Yanko