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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 27 April 2015 at 12:23, Marco van Leeuwen <mastervanleeuwen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
You are reaching the list and sent 2 emails. The list is low traffic and so
it can take 2-3 days for replies to happen.


> 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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Stephen J Smoogen.
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