On 02/12/2019 14:37, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > IIUC, effectively "new branches" means "EPEL branches" since normal > Fedora branches are all created automatically. > > So to rephrase this.... > > * Should someone who is not the maintainer be able to declare > that the maintainer must accept EPEL branches & the extra > work that involves thereafter. > > AFAIK, there's no requirement that Fedora package maintainers have > to provide EPEL branches, its upto each maintainer if they want that > work. > ... > > So if the maintainer doesn't want to maintain the EPEL branches, the > only long term viable option is to find willing co-maintainers to join, > who can then request the branch & do builds, triage bugs, etc. > > IOW, I struggle to see a reason to allow someone who is a not a > (co-)maintainer to request new branches in general. I'm not convinced > that provenpackagers should be able to do this either, unless they > want to volunteer to be the explicitly co-maintainer too, in which > case the question doesn't arise. > Yes! Several times. I've recently had this with some of "my" packages, where someone could create branches and even kicked in builds for EPEL8. Half of them are broken, and for a user, it just looks bad; users also have the expectation that I'd fix those issues. I am currently thankful for every bit I don't have to care about. I am assuming the best intent, but if there's a chance for it, I'd rather forbid branch requests from non-maintainers. Matthias _______________________________________________ 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
