Re: opam (was: Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers)

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On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 05:38:08PM +0000, David Allsopp wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > (I've added a few opam devs to CC)
> > 
> > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:14:41PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > > opam                              orphan                           1
> > weeks ago
> > 
> > I didn't notice that opam had been orphaned.  This package is the tool
> > used for source packaging of OCaml packages under $HOME
> > (https://opam.ocaml.org/).
> > 
> > I don't especially like language-specific tools for managing packages,
> > because of the usual problems that have been widely discussed elsewhere
> > and it's not profitable to rehash them again.  This is my personal view.
> > 
> > The question is if we want to keep this in Fedora or not?  ie. As an
> > official Fedora package versus something that opam maintainers would
> > provide themselves as a download.
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up - this very week I've wanted to see what could be done
> to get opam into EPEL, so discovering it's orphaned in Fedora is a bit of a blow!
> 
> We'd be happy to take on its maintenance. IIUC it needs to be readopted by August
> when F35 is branched, or does an orphaned package get dropped earlier than that?
> 
> FWIW, the aim from the OCaml Community perspective is that opam is installed and
> maintained by the OS's native package manager, so we'd obviously prefer it to stay
> that way.

Would you like to become the Fedora packager for opam?  You'll need to
follow these boilerplate steps (it's not actually as complicated as it
appears):

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers?rd=PackageMaintainers/Join

and I can be your sponsor.

Rich.

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