Re: Looking for new urlgrabber maintainer

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 6:01 PM Martin Basti <mbasti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 12. 2. 2020 17:06, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:52 AM Michal Domonkos <mdomonko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'd like to ask around if anyone would be willing to take ownership of
> >> the python3-urlgrabber package and its upstream repository[1]?
> >>
> >> For historical reasons, the project is de facto maintained by us, the
> >> DNF team (with the upstream repo hosted in our GitHub namespace).
> >> However, with the community's departure from YUM (which depended on
> >> urlgrabber) a few years back, we no longer have the incentive or
> >> capacity to keep the project alive, and are considering deprecating it
> >> in the near future, unless someone takes over.
> >>
> >> Now, urlgrabber has recently[2] been ported to Python 3, in an effort
> >> to maintain its legacy as a standalone general-purpose URL library,
> >> authored[3] by Jochen Breuer of SUSE in November, 2018.  It's the only
> >> component of the legacy YUM stack that wasn't dropped[4] from the
> >> distro in Fedora 31.  In addition to that, there currently is one last
> >> component in Fedora that requires the package; koji-containerbuild.
> >>
> >> That said, I'd like to address this request especially to Jochen and
> >> the maintainers of koji-containerbuild.  Please, let us know if you
> >> (or anyone, really) would be interested in the transfer.
> >>
> > Umm, don't I already own python-urlgrabber in Fedora and upstream? Not
> > that I would mind co-maintainers, but I thought we already did this
> > switchover during Fedora 31 development...
> >
> >
> Ehm sorry,
>
> it seems that somebody forgot to remove that dependency from
> koji-contianerbuild. At least it is not used in upstream I opened PR to
> drop it.
>
> https://github.com/containerbuildsystem/koji-containerbuild/pull/159

Oh, and I can see the PR has been merged in the meantime, which is
great!  Thank you, Martin!
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