On Tuesday (2024-12-10), the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) met in a private meeting to discuss whether Fedora contributor Peter Robinson should retain his provenpackager privileges. Over the last year, multiple private tickets have been opened with FESCo regarding Peter’s packaging behavior. In particular, on numerous occasions Peter has pushed uncommunicated updates to packages he has no prior relationship with, interfering with those packages’ maintenance efforts. On at least a few occasions, this has resulted in other maintainers being forced to react to these changes with no coordination or notice. The Fedora Proven Packager Policy[1] reads: “Provenpackagers lend a hand when help is needed, always with a desire to improve the quality of Fedora. Prior to making changes, provenpackagers should try to communicate with owners of a package in bugzilla, dist-git pull requests, IRC, matrix, or email. They should be careful not to change other people’s packages needlessly and try to do the minimal changes required to fix problems, as explained more in depth in ‘Who is Allowed to Modify Which Packages’[2].” Despite several warnings and conversations with FESCo representatives, Peter has continued to use his provenpackager privileges in an unapproved manner, frequently causing additional work for other maintainers. As a result of more than a month of debate in the latest private FESCo ticket on his conduct, the Committee voted – seven in favor, two against – to remove Peter from the provenpackager group in Fedora. Peter will retain his status as a Fedora packager, but will not be able to use provenpackager powers to bypass the review process on any package for which he is not a co-maintainer. FESCo would like to make this abundantly clear: this decision was not made lightly, nor without consideration for Peter’s past contributions to the Fedora Project. This decision is not irrevocable: Peter will be permitted to re-apply in the future for provenpackager status, provided he demonstrates a justified need for those privileges and remains in good standing as a Fedora packager. Signed, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Provenpackager_policy/ [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Who_is_allowed_to_modify_which_packages/ -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
