Sometimes a maintainer doesn't want to approve ACLs for "reasons" but doesn't
want to reject the request for various reasons including the requestor
re-request of denied requests.
Dennis
On August 5, 2016 3:34:58 PM GMT+02:00, Helio Chissini de Castro
<he...@kde.org> wrote:
>I have a strong opinion over this
>
>All the ACL's should be accepted, doesn't matter the level.
>And why i think of this ?
>
>Two simple reasons:
>- The packager abandoned the package, because several reasons, and then
>is
>far away from Fedora systems for some time
>- The packager is actively using Fedora, but seen not care to even
>properly
>take care of his package, not in the minimal sense to deny the ACL,
>which
>would be acceptable.
>
>In both cases, the package became hostage to someone that for sure
>aren't
>caring much for the distro, unless prove me wrong.
>
>
>
>On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon
><pin...@pingoured.fr>
>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:14:02AM +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
>> > On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 20:41:56 +0100
>> > "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 04:43:40PM +0200, Fabio Alessandro Locati
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > Hi all,
>> > > >
>> > > > This morning, during the automation workshop, I had the
>occasion of
>> > > > speaking about this with Pingou and Threebean.
>> > > > Thanks to Pingou hints, I've created a query to get pending ACL
>from
>> > > > pkgdb.
>> > > > What I'd like to share with you all is the list of users that
>can
>> > > > approve/deny ACL requests (older than 1 month) but have not
>done it
>> > > > yet (the number refers to the number of ACL pending).
>> > > >
>> > > > I think that people should take care of the pending ACL they
>can
>> > > > approve/deny and actually approve or deny them ASAP.
>> > >
>> > > Your email needs a "call to action" link, otherwise no one will
>know
>> > > what they are supposed to do about it. In this case it's
>probably:
>> > >
>> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acl/pending/
>> > >
>> > > However I visited the above URL, logged in, and it says:
>> > >
>> > > Pending ACLs
>> > > No pending ACLs for you
>> >
>> > also there should be no action required from the owner for
>"watchcommit"
>> > or "watchbugzilla" requests, looks as a bug in the conversion when
>> > deploying the recent pkgdb
>>
>> Well, the recent pkgdb is already quite a bit old and it should
>> definitively
>> auto-accept the watch* ACLs.
>> Do you have a link so I could look at the package/history?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pierre
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