On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 11:28 PM Inglis, Malcolm via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Is someone willing to sponsor me into the `packager` group? I'd appreciate it! > > (I was bouncing around the documentation for that, but it seems there's no > formalized process currently - sorry if I missed something) > > I have two outstanding PRs that I think are hanging on uploading new sources > to the Lookaside Cache: > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nfs-utils/pull-request/10 , > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libesmtp/pull-request/1 > > I've been, and hope to continue, contributing small fixes for various > packages that I've noticed while working on AL packaging, and in regular > personal usage. Over time, I hope to do more.
Hi Malcolm, Welcome to Fedora! It's great to see more Amazon Linux people joining up. :) There *is* documentation for how to join the "packager" group, but it is sometimes not very discoverable, depending on the exact search terms you use ... https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Package_Maintainers/ Making PRs and proving that you have understood the basics of Fedora / RPM packaging is a good step towards getting sponsored. If you want to go the direct route, you can open a ticket here, where you can apply for sponsorship into the packager group directly: https://pagure.io/packager-sponsors (don't forget to list your contributions to Fedora in the ticket, i.e. accepted PRs, non-binding package reviews, etc.) And, you are right, not being able to upload sources for new versions when making a PR is unfortunate. On the other hand, making it possible to upload arbitrary files to Fedora servers for "untrusted" users is not a good idea either. So we really don't have a good solution for that yet ... As Maxwell has noted in another reply, you can use a partial workaround for this problem - by updating the "sources" and ".gitignore" files (running "fedpkg new-sources --offline"). Then a packager group member can just upload the actual file(s) to the cache and merge the PR - and this then doesn't require any additional commits or changes to your PR. Fabio / decathorpe _______________________________________________ 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
