Hi, I used to be a maintainer for a few OpenSUSE packages. I have not done it for a few years, but I understand the basics of RPM packaging. I am not planning to try to get sponsorship to get into the packager group, I barely know the Fedora tools, but I could send a patch from time to time when I find a problem somewhere. cmake 3.19.2 was released on 16 December, 3.18.5 on 18 November, but Fedora still has 3.18.4 even on the package master branch. So I thought I would try to get it right. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/ci/pull-requests/#_you_are_not_a_packager did sound encouraging. My failed attempt has left me with some questions. - Can this be done? I may be able to push to my own fork and create Pull Requests. But to update a package I am going to need to upload the updated tarball to the Lookaside Cache, and I guess I need to be in the packager group to be able to do that (I get a 403 error). - How did this happen? I am not trying to blame the maintainer. Stuff happens, people have a life outside Fedora. But he probably knows (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899163), there is even a person comment in there asking about the update, and for whatever reason he has not done it. Two weeks ago I sent him an email but have got no reply yet. How does Fedora handle this? For all I know he may have transcended into a pure-energy being and we will never get more updates from him. If that's the case, when does Fedora notice and assigns a new maintainer to the package? There is any defined process? - What's wrong with the the-new-hotness? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899163 has been complaining that "An HTTP error occurred downloading the package's new Source URLs: Getting https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/5482.patch to ./5482.patch" since 18 November. I can open https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/merge_requests/5482.patch in my browser without any issues, "An HTTP error" is not too helpful here. _______________________________________________ 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
