[EPEL-devel] What is the best way to contact package maintainers?

[Marco van Leeuwen]

Hi all,

Somehow I am having trouble reaching the mailing list. I would like to
suggest to add pam_mount and it's dependencies: libHX and hxtools to EPEL7.
I have run tests which indicate that the packages from the fedora package
git repository should just work. I can volunteer to be the maintainer or
co-maintainer for these packages.

A testbuild for libHX is here:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9577684

Best regards,

Marco van Leeuwen

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 1:14 AM, ~Stack~ <i.am.stack at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> A few months ago the package 'lis' disappeared from EPEL6. This was very
> sad for me. The version that was there fit my needs but apparently the
> package got orphaned and removed leaving me with nothing at all.
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/lis/
>
> Since EPEL7 first started, I have been eagerly awaiting a few packages.
> Everything but terminator is now in EPEL7. I have a lot of
> customizations done to terminator and not having it messes with me
> enough that I have yet to switch to any form/variant of RHEL7 at all
> simply because I can't stand trying to do my work on a normal terminal
> shell. :-) Now, I see that EPEL7 is listed as approved for terminator
> and has been for a while, but I still don't see the package in the
> repositories. I don't know what it means to be approved but not in the
> repos...
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/terminator/
>
>
> What do these two things have in common? The fact that I have tried on
> several occasions to reach out to the developers inquiring about the
> packages. I don't know if the emails I got out of those fedoraproject
> links are not used/watched, or if I got filtered, or if gmail is just
> routing my sent/received emails to /dev/null again...
>
> I was trying not to be an nuisance on the list inquiring about package
> status' all of the time so I thought I would reach out to the devs.
> However, I have sent a few emails with zero response at all (I don't
> know if they even got my emails) and I _really_ don't want to be a
> nuisance by spamming the dev's email. I appreciate their work too much
> to have any desire to be a nuisance! :-D
>
> I poked around on the website and search a bit on the mailing-list but I
> didn't find anything on the most appropriate way to contact devs outside
> of the generic IRC/mailing list approach. So I thought I would ask here.
>
> When I have a question about the status of a package, what is the best
> way to contact that package maintainer? Should I have just been
> submitting my questions to the list the whole time?
>
>
> Thanks!
> ~Stack~
>
>
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