2016-01-04 15:15 GMT+01:00 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Jan Kurik <jkurik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> = Proposed System Wide Change: Suds Jurko Fork = >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Suds_Jurko_Fork >> >> Change owner(s): >> * Scott Talbert <swt AT techie DOT net > >> >> Change the python-suds package to use the fork maintained by Jurko Gospodnetić. >> >> == Detailed Description == >> Suds is a SOAP-based web service client for Python which is currently >> packaged in Fedora as python-suds. This change proposal aims to update >> the python-suds package to use the fork maintained by Jurko >> Gospodnetić. Currently Fedora has the original version of Suds which >> has not been maintained or updated since 2011. The original version >> does not support Python 3. >> >> == Scope == >> Proposal owners: >> * Update existing python-suds package to suds-jurko and ensure it >> builds/works in Rawhide. (NOTE: proposal owner is not currently the >> maintainer of python-suds, but would intend to assume maintainership >> as part of this change.) The plan is to use the latest hg snapshot of >> suds-jurko. > > Has the current python-suds maintainer been contacted about this > change directly? If so, did they have an opinion on it? > Chandan did contact him a while ago and I confirm that he did not receive any answer. Since maintainer is inactive for a while, I was thinking about doing the update as provenpackager after a reasonable delay. >> * In conjunction with the python-suds dependent package maintainers, >> help test dependent packages to ensure they work correctly with the >> new package. >> >> Other developers: >> * For maintainers of packages that depend on python-suds: test the >> dependent packages to ensure they work correctly with the updated >> python-suds package. No changes should be needed as the Jurko fork is >> believed to maintain compatibility with the original Suds. > > Can someone actually check this for compatibility instead of just believing? > > josh Compatibility has been tested extensively by OpenStack, suds-jurko is the current recommend fork of suds as upstream is unmaintained. It is mostly bugfixes + more tests (and I hope that new package will run them) suds-jurko upstream maintainer did a good job documenting the changes and his fork is based upon latest revision from suds which is already 4 years old. Regards, H. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
