No dia 27 de Abril de 2012 18:44, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:44:01PM -0400, Rich Mattes wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 1) How to check who currently maintains those packages; >> >> >> You can use the fedora pkgdb at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb. To get >> into contact with the owners of the packages you can either file bugs against >> the packages, or email packagename-owner@fedoraproject dot org. >> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/fife > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/enet > > PackageDB keeps ownership information per branch (several reasons for this: > the owner may be different between EPEL and Fedora; the owner may want to > orphan a package in Fedora devel but be willing to continue maintaining on > older Fedora releases until they go EOL). > > The only difference between an owner and a comaintainer (someone who has all > of the acls on the package) is that the owner is assigned to be the owner in > bugzilla. > >> 2) The correct 'modus operandi' to take ownership of those packages; >> >> >> You generally don't "take ownership" of a package that someone else owns in >> Fedora, except for when the owner expresses an interest in orphaning the >> package and passing ownership along or the owner is non-responsive. You can, >> however, apply to _co-maintain_ the package. In this case, you gain rights to >> commit to the git branch and can submit updates for a package. >> Co-maintainership is up to the discretion of the package owner, you can apply >> to co-maintain in the pkgdb (if you are sponsored into the packaging group,) >> but you should speak with the package owner first. >> > Just one thing to add here. Comaintainership responsibility can vary > depending on the circumstances. I have a few packages where a comaintainer > and I talked and he's pretty much doing all the work. I only work on the > package if there's something time critical or I can contribute a patch to > the code that the comaintainer can't. Communication is the key to deciding > what each person is going to do. > > An additional plus to comaintainership is that FESCo can sponsor you into > the packager group if the package owner is willing to mentor you. That > allows more people to do package reviews for you. > >> Is this OK? Should I re-open BZ718430? >> >> >> You should be ok re-opening your review request and continuing the review. You >> should also reach out to the FIFE maintainer as was suggested in the previous >> thread, especially if you want to co-maintain FIFE (and perhaps he can help you >> maintain UH as well) >> > A hearty +1 to this. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757352 Once this has been fixed :) > > -Toshio > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Nelson Marques // I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of bread in the middle... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
