Thanks, Fabio! I'm sorry I missed the process to cut a ticket in packager-sponsors. I've done that now: https://pagure.io/packager-sponsors/issue/511
That doc page was one of the few I was bouncing around until I opted to email this list. That page linked to the repo's README, which then linked "Procedure for new packagers" to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers , which linked back to the original doc page. That page had a section on "How to find a sponsor", which seemed to imply I'd need to find a sponsor to volunteer *before* moving ahead. Meanwhile, I noticed that several 'Self Introduction' emails on this list had sought and received sponsorship, so I figured this was a way that would work. It may help if said doc page elaborated the process, perhaps by describing an example request, and if the README on `packager-sponsors` was also elaborated and updated to not link to dead wikis. I can try to send some PRs to help out there. I understood why `packager` membership is required for various infrastructure access; it makes perfect sense to avoid managing effectively-free-world-writable storage :) I don't believe I raised any contention there. The PR that Maxwell linked seems very appealing, though. It would be great if PRs with new sources from non-packager-members could pass CI without any action from maintainers. The problem that Maxwell raised about sources updates is not one that I've experienced. I've had a PR with new sources be accepted as-is just fine ( https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-prompt-toolkit/pull-request/1 ). It's just that the CI run was failing (as per state of my other outstanding PRs) until the maintainer stepped in. Cheers, Malcolm P.S. my apologies for letting my corporate mailserver rules mess up the thread subject by adding '[EXTERNAL]'. I'll try to catch that in future. On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 18:27:31 +0000, "Fabio Valentini" <decatho...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
