>>>>> "RO" == Ron Olson <tachoknight@xxxxxxxxx> writes: RO> I did request access but the page gave me a catch-22 of needing to RO> be in a particular group to continue; it was awhile ago at the end RO> of last year and I kind of dropped it, but since I've been playing RO> more Nethack on my Fedora 25 laptop, it rekindled my interest in RO> being the maintainer. I guess what you're trying to say is that you're not a packager. That wasn't mentioned anywhere as far as I can see. The maintainer of any package can request that you be made a packager so that you can assist them with the package, and I'm sure that fale would have done that if you had mentioned that you needed such. I can also sponsor you into the packager group as can several other folks. That's basically just a promise to mentor you and help with questions you may have. For me it would be vastly preferable if you were on IRC because that's a low effort way to communicate, versus email which for me often piles up and gets missed. RO> Sorry if I'm doing this wrong; the maintainer packages are pretty RO> involved and I'm trying to navigate through this; there's no 'dnf -y RO> install maintainer' as far as I can tell. :) Well, there's fedora-packager, but of course it only gets you the tools, not the knowledge. We have a bunch of documentation about becoming a packager; I'm not sure what you've read at this point. I looked at the nethack package and while it's a bit archaic it's not particularly complicated. I personally would do some cleanup simplifications which might make it a bit easier to read and maintain but it's not a difficult package by any means. (The use of X11 core fonts does scare me, though; that's something most of us would try to forget.) Of course I'm assuming that 3.6 hasn't become drastically more complicated. - J< _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
