Just forwarding this reply. I sent it to Alek directly but my CC to the list got bounced due to me not being subscribed. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 13 May 2013 21:19 Subject: Re: lua 5.2 To: Alek Paunov <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> On 12 May 2013 01:27, Alek Paunov <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Personally, I not have learned all of the guidelines yet and do not feel ready to make proper reviews of other packages ( besides my recent hard times with bunch of stalled tasks :-( ), but there are another unofficial spec [4] and if Craig is willing to become leading maintainer I will be happy to apply as co-maintainer (not because package requires additional care, but as help with the bugs processing duties, if any). @Craig what you think? > > [4] https://github.com/craigbarnes/packages/blob/master/luajit.spec > I'm more than willing to maintain LuaJIT for Fedora but I haven't been sponsored as a packager yet. I submitted a package (discount) about 18 months ago, along with a sponsorship request but it's still awaiting formal review. > So, may be Fedora transition to 5.2 is the right moment for LuaJIT to be finally included in the collection (with an additional role as lua51-compat package - alternative provider of lua(abi) = 5.1 on all architectures except s390 and ppc64). > Some Lua C modules implement support for both ABIs by using compile-time macros and so won't be loadable by both at runtime. Quite a few Lua packages will probably need some attention/patching and all of them could probably use some testing after such a change. I'd like to help with that too, but without sponsorship or guidance I don't really know where to start or what the procedure is. Regards, Craig -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
