On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 7:04 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:26:19PM -0500, Tony Asleson wrote:
> > Upstream pywbem project took 2 internal libraries and broke them out
> > into separate libraries.  I asked if they would be OK with maintaining
> > these new packages in fedora and they said yes[1].  They followed the
> > process and asked for a sponsor and got no response [2].
>
> Sorry about that.

No worries

> You could add them in as co-maintainers, provided you are willing to
> show them how packaging works, etc.
>
> See: 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group#Become_a_co-maintainer

This seems to imply co-maintaining an existing package, not a new package?

> Did they or you ever submit the packages for review?

Looks like this is for one of them:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1880953

It looks like a review comment was made, but no response yet from
Andreas (Andy).
CC'ing him on this email.  IIRC after it looks good is when you can
get a sponsor?

> They (or you) may also want to post to the python-sig list instead of
> the main devel list. Sometimes things get really busy here and people
> miss posts.

Andy CC'd

> > They have now pitched the idea of using "vendorize" to meet this
> > requirement [3].  However, I believe the answer to this from a fedora
> > packaging standpoint is no.  Is this correct?
>
> I'd say it's much better not to, yes.

Yeah, otherwise all the stuff being done for rust packages wouldn't be
occurring :-)

Thank you for your response

-Tony
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