EPEL Orphan or retire the TurboGears (v1) stack in 7

[Zhiwei Zhu]

Hi Toshio,

Thanks. Understand the situation now.
Will discuss with my lead about the possibility to maintain the packages by ourselves.

BTW, as we don't have experience of maintaining packages on epel, we have no idea how much effort will be required to do that or how difficult it would be.
Could you help to share something about this? I understand that there is some kind of co-maintainer path to take for new maintainers but don't how to start it.


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Best Regards
Jacky


-----Original Message-----
From: epel-devel-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:epel-devel-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Toshio Kuratomi
Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2014 11:20 PM
To: EPEL Development List
Subject: Re: EPEL Orphan or retire the TurboGears (v1) stack in 7

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:39:40AM +0000, Zhiwei Zhu wrote:
> Hi Toshio,
> 
> I have just noticed this message after I failed to install TurboGears (v1) on CentOS 7.
> 
> We really need the TurboGears (v1) support via epel for el7.  Migrating away from TurboGears V1 to V2 or to other framework seems impossible for us at the moment, though we know that we will have to migrate in future.
> 
> Could you help to suggest what we could do to revive these packages and have epel7 will still support TurboGears( v1 )?
> 
Sure!  Become a package maintainer and maintain the packages that have become orphaned in EPEL7.

Note that you won't need to revive all of the packages -- some of those were retired because they depend on TurboGears1 (for instance, bodhi).  You'll only need to revive the ones that TurboGears1 depends on (and those that your applications need).

-Toshio

> 
> ------------------------------
> Best Regards
> Jacky
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: epel-devel-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org 
> [mailto:epel-devel-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of 
> Toshio Kuratomi
> Sent: Saturday, 21 June 2014 3:02 AM
> To: epel-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: EPEL Orphan or retire the TurboGears (v1) stack in 7
> 
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:01:26PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >
> > If someone steps up to say they'll take ownership of TurboGears1 
> > (one of the comaintainers or someone new), then I'll reassign these packages to them.
> > If no one does, then I'll retire them in epel7 and ask that the 
> > packages be removed from the download repos before epel7 leaves beta.
> > Someone can revive them later if they're interested.
> >
> >
> > == Packages to be orphaned retired ==
> > * python-cherrypy2
> > * python-elixir
> > * python-peak-rules
> > * python-turbocheetah
> > * bodhi
> > * python-tgcaptcha2
> > * python-turboflot
> > * python-turbokid (need to remove a spurious dep on this from
> > TurboGears2)
> > * python-turbojson (need to remove a spurious dep on this from
> > TurboGears2)
> > * python-paste-script (this one has other dependents in Fedora but none in
> >   EPEL7.  Please speak up or revive this later if you're interested)
> >
> 
> These have now been retired.  If someone is interested in them, feel free to revive.
> 
> -Toshio
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