On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 03:15:24PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > 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. I don't think it'll be "open to anyone". In the described workflow, non-approved packagers can only open PRs (like they already can against any package). Zbyszek _______________________________________________ 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
