On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:31:15 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Hello Packagers, > > Over the next several weeks we're going to be transitioning away from > the owner.list and pkg.acl files to the long awaited Package Database. > As a transitional step we're going to continue to have our cvsadmins > handling the changes to owners.list but the changes will go to the > Database instead of to the owners.list file. There are two changes to > your immediate workflow that you should be aware of: > > 1) pkg.acl files no longer serve acls. Instead, this information is > contained in the packageDB. If you would like to have an acl changed, > please use a cvsadmin request or see my note at the bottom of this > message[1]_. > > 2) To make processing requests easier for the cvsadmins it would be > greatly appreciated if you can use your Fedora username instead of email > address in your cvsadmin requests. The Package Database keys off of the > Fedora Account so doing this will let the admins handle the requests > without having to lookup the username in the account system. > > The updated instructions for cvsadmin requests are here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure > > [1]_: After testing this for a few weeks we'll be announcing the general > availability of many of these functions without having to go through a > cvsadmin. If you would like to test the functionality knowing that > there is no documentation and that you may run into glaring bugs, please > send me email or get in touch with me on irc.freenode.net in > #fedora-devel or #fedora-admin -- abadger1999 Is a replacement for the owners.list downloaders+parsers available already? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
