Hello, Brian. On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 23:08, Brian Sipos wrote: > Hello all, > I've been working with RHEL and CentOS packages since about 2011, but > mostly in the domain of private Yum repositories. I've done some work > in the past with the SUSE Build Service also. I'm familiar with > Redhat/Fedora packaging guidelines but not with Fedora-specific > development tooling. I've also been involved in the Redhat bugzilla > and submitted several library patches for packaging (but never managed > a package or package branch itself). That's great! Welcome to Fedora. > Since RHEL/CentOS 8 has been released now, I'm interested in helping > with the migration of packages into the EPEL-8 repository. My focus is > on some particular scientific computing packages which are available > in EPEL-7 but not yet in EPEL- 8. I've not been able to find any good > information about this type of thing; does anyone have any pointers? Do you have any specific packages in mind? I maintain a number of scientific packages but I'd be happy to hand over some of them to someone who's actually using them. > My first thought would be to start rebuilding "fc28" packages for > "el8" but I don't want to duplicate effort if there is already > coordinated EPEL-8 targeting for some of these packages. The link at < > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_do_I_request_a_EPEL_branch_for_an_existing_Fedora_package.3F > > points to the old "PackageDB" process but that appears to be > > superseded by the > "fedpkg" tool. I suppose I need to be an approved package developer > even to do local EPEL-8 -targeted builds. Best way would be to open a bug against the package you'd like to see the EPEL8 branch for and offer to maintain the branch or contact the maintainer(s) directly (via package_name-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx alias). Finally, there's the SciTech SIG, which is barely active but has its own mailing list and an IRC channel, too: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG?rd=SciTech_special_interest_group Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
