Re: How to send a package update

2012-01-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 20:08:20 -0500, Julio Merino wrote: > > Also, I cannot tell if three years ago I gained some privileges that > I have now lost due to the conversion of the packages repository > from cvs to git. For example, a "fedpkg clone" without the -a > option fails due to a permis

Re: How to send a package update

2012-01-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Julio Merino wrote: > Also, I cannot tell if three years ago I gained some privileges that I > have now lost due to the conversion of the packages repository from cvs > to git. For example, a "fedpkg clone" without the -a option fails due > to a permission denied (reason: publickey), although I h

Re: Losing package maintainers (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/16/2012 03:20 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:28:15 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: However, with the current features of pkgdb, each member of such a group would need to "subscribe to" the package in pkgdb. Not just for "commit" access, but also for some

Re: Too much bureaucracy or not enough interest? (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:37:16 +0100 Mattia Verga wrote: > I'm just entered the world of Fedora packagers and I see a few points > that can be optimized in my opinion. Welcome by the way. ;) > 1. I saw a package that need to be upgraded. I opened a bug in > bugzilla, after some time whit no res

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:39:48 +0100 Michael J Gruber wrote: ...snip... (Please trim you emails...) > Took bibexport. > > mathmap seems to be dead upstream as a Gimp plugin, unfortunately. > (It's supposed to be turned into a web service...) > > While it's a pitty to see it go away, pampering t

Re: Losing package maintainers (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:28:15 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > However, with the current features of pkgdb, each member of such a > > group would need to "subscribe to" the package in pkgdb. Not just > > for "commit" access, but also for someone to monitor bugzilla and > > t

How to send a package update

2012-01-15 Thread Julio Merino
Hello, About three years ago, I created two very simple packages: mk-files and bmake. I followed the instructions at that time to get them into the distribution, and the packages were accepted. For a variety of reasons, I had not been paying attention to those packages since then, but other

Re: Too much bureaucracy or not enough interest? (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:37:16 +0100, MV (Mattia) wrote: > I'm just entered the world of Fedora packagers and I see a few points > that can be optimized in my opinion. > > 1. I saw a package that need to be upgraded. I opened a bug in bugzilla, > after some time whit no response from the maintain

Re: Too much bureaucracy or not enough interest? (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

2012-01-15 Thread Mattia Verga
I'm just entered the world of Fedora packagers and I see a few points that can be optimized in my opinion. 1. I saw a package that need to be upgraded. I opened a bug in bugzilla, after some time whit no response from the maintainer I asked in pkgdb permissions for that package: I'm still wait

Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting

2012-01-15 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Following is the list of topics that will be discussed in the FESCo meeting tomorrow at 18:00UTC (1:00pm EST) in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net. Links to all tickets below can be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/report/9 = Followups = None = New business = #topic #742 F17 Feat

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-15 Thread Michael J Gruber
Bill Nottingham venit, vidit, dixit 13.01.2012 17:11: > Each release, before branching, we block currently orphaned packages. > It's that time again for Fedora 17. > > New this go-round is that we are also blocking packages that have > failed to build since before Fedora 15. > > The following pac

Re: Orphaning packages

2012-01-15 Thread Pavel Alexeev
I took teseq. 15.01.2012 14:28, Vivek Shah wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have had no time for the past months to look after my packages so I am orphaning them. t

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-15 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:48:35 +0100, >  Brendan Jones wrote: >> On 01/14/2012 07:12 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> I agree! If a package is orphaned, can't we automatically escalate >> ownership to the next co-maintainer (when there is one

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:48:35 +0100, Brendan Jones wrote: > On 01/14/2012 07:12 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > I agree! If a package is orphaned, can't we automatically escalate > ownership to the next co-maintainer (when there is one - perhaps the > one with the most commits for example). > > If

[Test-Announce] 2012-01-16 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2012-01-15 Thread Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2012-01-16 # Time: 16:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again, now we're ramping up towards Alpha, and the four of us who are at FUDCon wil

Orphan: avant-windows-navigator and friends

2012-01-15 Thread tim.laurid...@gmail.com
With a little sadless I has to orhan avant-windows-navigator, awn-extras-applet and libdesktop-agnostic for fedora-devel (fedora-17) The avant-windows-navigator package don't build in rawhide because of changes in latest version of vala The awn-extras-applet has lot of problems with gnome 2.x depe

Re: Orphaning packages

2012-01-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:28:10 +0100, VS (Vivek) wrote: >I have had no time for the past months to look after my packages so I am > orphaning them. > > teseq, mausezahn,samefile. I've taken "samefile". -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailma

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

2012-01-15 Thread Brendan Jones
On 01/14/2012 07:12 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Kevin Fenzi wrote: Keeping packages around with no maintainers or people handling their bugs is poor for everyone. Why? If I, as a user, really need a certain piece of software, I'd rather have an unmaintained package than none at all! Worst case, I

Orphaning packages

2012-01-15 Thread Vivek Shah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have had no time for the past months to look after my packages so I am orphaning them. teseq, mausezahn,samefile. I have been steadily orpha