Hello, I need to step down as a developer/maintainer of rpkg-util (https://pagure.io/rpkg-util) as I no longer have the incentive or knowledge required to maintain the project well enough. The purpose of this tool was to provide a distro-agnostic rpm package manager - that translates to: 1) it is able to communicate with any dist-git instance out there 2) it requires zero initial setup, i.e. one just needs to place a valid spec file into a git repo for rpkg command to be able to work with that repo (and with that package consequently) 3) the git repo with the spec file doesn't need to have the standard dist-git layout - context of the spec-file can be whatever as long as the spec properly references the sources 4) it additionally provides set of preproc (very simple templating language) macros that enable auto-generation of source tarball(s) and rpm metadata (Name, Version, Release, VCS, changelog, ...) "on-demand" from the content of the repository (i.e. source files) and its metadata (i.e. git history). "On-demand" means that these are only computed and substituted into the spec file when needed (e.g. srpm or rpm is built). There are two other ideas that drove the development except "the distro-agnostic package manager" thing: * provide the simplest possible way for upstreams to make rpm packages out of their application sources * do that while keeping all the standard workflows of a Fedora packager working (i.e. upload sources, download sources, build srpm, send package for a build into a build system) So rpkg-util fuses these two seemingly different things into a single one. I also had some other ideas, i.e. how to implement creating distro-specific variation on this tool that doesn't use inheritance but instead configuration and pluggable commands but this hasn't been implemented yet. There is also some potential for extending the macro library that rpkg-util offers or even the preproc (the bash-based templating language) syntax to provide a more full-fledged templating language (preproc is supposed to be non-specific to rpm btw. even though it is currently part of the rpkg-util git repo). It has found its use mainly in Copr in SCM built method. I don't know about uses outside of that scope. The project is in a very good shape currently with only these reported issues: https://pagure.io/rpkg-util/issues, which might change with time if it is unmaintained. So if anyone from RH or outside would like to step-in and take maintenance / further development of this project, that would be welcome. I would probably stick around to some extent and provide any guidance if needed. Best regards clime _______________________________________________ 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
