On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 10:57:42AM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, there have been a lot of discussions on this list as well > as we have internally about onboarding. During our internal > brainstorming, we were initially discussing that it could be useful > to have some package one can experiment with without being too much > worried about the result. > > However, discussing this back and forth, we figured that it might > also be good idea to actually have something such as "onboarding" > package, where new coming package maintainer could gradually gain > experience with the packaging workflows. So the simplest tasks could > be: > > 1) Add changelog entry into onboarding package and open PR with the > change. This would not require too many privileges. Alternatively > this could include change to "CONTRIBUTORS" file. I suspect that > also some current Fedora contributors might be interested to send > such PR ;) > > 2) Second step could be something similar, but that would require > the packager to be already sponsored and they could go through the > whole process themeselves just with some light guidance if needed. > > This could be extended in the future. E.g. next step could be: > > 3) Submit module update. > > Apart from gaining experience, this could also help with the common > question "where should I start". And of course our sponsoring > guidelines could be refreshed suggesting/requesting to take these > steps at some point. > > Thoughts? It's a good idea, but it's probably also a good idea to block it from installation at the dnf level. If it was open to everyone even non-sponsored then someone could anonymously put something nasty in it, like a %post script. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
