On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:46:27PM -0600, Ryan Breaker wrote: > Hello everyone, my name is Ryan and I’m looking to join the Packager group to revive and update the netatalk package, as well as be available to assist with anything else I find myself interested in helping with. I’m a huge fan of Fedora and it’s long been my favorite Linux distribution so I’m excited to be able to give back in some way. > > > > The package I’m looking to revive and update already exists on Pagure at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/netatalk and it’s just a few minor releases behind from its previous commit before being marked as dead so once able I will do just that. > > > > Feel free to let me know if there’s anything else I need to do to get the access I need; I already forked it but don’t appear to be able to pull or push to it yet. Hi Ryan, welcome to Fedora! We always need more maintainers, and it's great that you want to pick up an package that the original maintainers cannot take care of anymore. There's a procedure for new maintainers: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers. That page describes the procedure from the point of view of new packages. Since you are reviving an existing package, some parts don't apply exactly, but since the package was retired for a longer time, you'll need to go through re-review anyway. The most straightforward way to achieve your goal of becoming a packager and putting netatalk back in the distro would be: a) update the netatalk package to current guidelines (starting from the old version, i.e. first clone the repo, restore the contents from before the retirement, commit that, and add your changes on top, so it's easy to see what new), b) open a review ticket for it, link to the previous review ticket c) review some packages from https://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html Point c can and should be done in parallel with the others. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
