On 05/13/2010 01:23 PM, Julian Aloofi wrote: > I have just taken ownership of the recently orphaned package > 'diveintopython' in pkgdb as announced on this thread [1]. > > Now, while going through [2] I have a question about the instructions > given there. > > "If a package was last updated more than three months ago (running cvs > log -r HEAD *.spec can show you this information), you will need to > submit a review request and have the package approved by a reviewer as > if it were new to Fedora. See the package review process for more > information. There are a couple of small changes though, be sure to > submit a 'update' request to 'cvs', and before you will be able to run > the final 'make build' commands you will need to file a ticket w/ > release engineering to unblock your package > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/newticket " > > The package has not received updates for over three months now (but has > been rebuilt and included in Fedora 13 etc.) and therefore I'll have to > submit a new review request as far as I understood. > > What I don't get now is the part about the 'update' request to 'cvs'. > What exactly does that mean? Should I check the package out from CVS and > do a 'cvs update', or should I file an "Update request" (as opposed to > "Review request") in bugzilla against cvs, or something completely > different? > Sorry if it sounds obvious, but I don't know what that's trying to tell > me. > > Regards, > Julian > > > [1] > http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg07879.html > > [2] > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers > I wouldn't think it would need a review, as it was *just* orphaned, and is a primarily informational package. -J -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
