Hi Otto, Thanks for your thorough response because it confirms that: - I was reading the right pages - They are confusing.
I fully agree that it is suboptimal to involve releng in "unorphaning". I will try to entice someone to sponsor me for packaging. The fact that I am still interested is a testament to my tenacity. -Blaise On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 2:32 PM Otto Urpelainen <otu...@iki.fi> wrote: > Hello Blaise, > > I am not familiar with this particular package, but about becoming a > packager and unorphaning packages in general: > > Blaise Pabon kirjoitti 18.11.2021 klo 16.35: > > This is my first fedora package. > > (I have tried before, but not made it this far.) > > Good luck, I hope you make it this time! > > > In the spirit of begging forgiveness rather than permission, I opened: > > https://pagure.io/releng/issue/10393 > > There is no need involve releng when unorphaning packages. Packagers can > do that themselves, with the Take button that you are already familiar > with. > > I assume you filed the ticket because of section Claiming Ownership of > an Orphaned Package [1] in the Package Maintainer Docs. That section > needs to be clarified a bit. In your case releng cannot (or perhaps > should not?) help you — you just have to gain access to the packager so > that you can help yourself. > > > Is the next step for me to: > > > > - get added to the packagers group so that I can "take" ownership > > Yes. Instructions are at How to Get Sponsored into the Packager Group [2]. > > Also this page needs to be improved, the instructions are not very clear > for your case. I would say a good way to proceed would be to first do > enough of the things listed in "Convincing someone to sponsor you", then > submit a ticket to the sponsors ticketing system [3], listing all those > things. > > > - use my fork to update the broken dependencies and submit a PR? > > That will not directly help. The package is orphaned, so there is no > maintainer to merge your pull request and issue a new build. > > However, submitting pull requests is one of the suggested ways to > convince somebody to sponsor you. So please do open a pull request. It > helps you get sponsored, and as a bonus, when you eventually get > sponsored, you can merge the pull request and proceed to build the package. > > Regards, > Otto > > [1]: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Orphaning_Process/#claiming_ownership_of_an_orphaned_package > [2]: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/How_to_Get_Sponsored_into_the_Packager_Group/ > [3]: https://pagure.io/packager-sponsors/ > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/blaisepabon/> | Quora <https://www.quora.com/profile/Blaise-Pabon> | Github <https://github.com/blaisep> “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” --African proverb
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