On 25 April 2017 at 11:27, Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Karel Volný writes: > > > > Hi, > > > > > My apologies in advance if this is the wrong place. > > > > I cannot think of any better :-) > > > > > I am the developper for Recoll, a full-text search application, which has > > > been packaged for Fedora for a long time. > > > > > > I have a small but steady rivulet of users asking for CentOS or Enterprise > > > Linux Recoll packages. In consequence, there are some CentOS 7 packages on > > > the Recoll web site. It would be easier for the users and and for me if the > > > Fedora package was maintained for EPEL instead. > > > > > > Any possibility that this could happen ? > > > > I see there already exists a bug for this: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422666 > > > > however it is assigned to the EL6 branch maintainer whom I expect to be > > buried in other stuff (we have RHEL 7.4 around the corner ...) while the > > Fedora maintainer, who looks quite reponsive, wasn't copied ... > > I understand the buried issue. > > I wrote to the Fedora maintainer first of course, and he does not wish to > do EPEL packaging, hence my email to the list. > > > generally, some people maintaining packages in Fedora might be hesitant to > > take care of EPEL as they don't run RHEL/CentOS ... it might help if you > > (your community) would commit to testing/help with patching, which I > > suppose wouldn't be a problem if you already maintain own packages > > No problem for helping with testing and solving issues, and I always make > sure that distribution-specific patches (usually small build > compiler-related issues) get into the main code as soon as possible. > > > also, you might become EPEL packager yourself :-) > > Yes, but really, developpers and package maintainers have different sets of > competences, and I know that I have a very hard time switching between the > roles. Memory not good enough. It's one thing to whip up a set of working > packages, another to make sure that they are correct and in accordance with > the distribution standards. > In this case, what we need is someone to build a set of packages that have already been set up for distribution standards. After that it needs to have the package bugs fed to the developer so they can either mitigate, fix or can them. Normally this can be the hardest part because the developer is unaware of what the users are wanting to do. I will attempt to work with the EPEL maintainer to fire off builds from the Fedora branch. This will allow them to get into the various EPEL-testing trees so that it can be seen what next steps are needed. > Cheers, > > jf > > > > K. > > > > -- > > Karel Volný > > BaseOS QE - Daemons > > Red Hat Czech, Brno > > tel. +420 532294274 > > (RH: +420 532294111 ext. 8262074) > > :: "Never attribute to malice what can > > :: easily be explained by stupidity." > > _______________________________________________ > > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
