Re: Inactive packagers to be removed after the F37 release

2022-09-06 Thread Alex Perez
s just isn't as simple or straightforward as you seem to want it to be. Erecting financial barriers to contribution is dangerous, and has unintended consequences. Respectfully, Alex Perez Jonathan Wright via devel wrote on 9/6/22 2:14 PM: > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 3:52 PM

Request for exception to non-responsive maintainer policy for Sugar packages

2021-02-07 Thread Alex Perez
Hi folks,   I've opened https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574 [https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574] to facilitate assumption ownership of the Sugar packages in Fedora, most of which are de-facto abandoned by the previous maintainer, erikos, who has not authenticated with his FAS account since March

Re: Fedora 35 Change proposal: POWER 4k page size (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-02-13 Thread Alex Perez
they have to compile their own kernels or >> obtain custom kernels from another user. > >   Or just fix the GPU drivers. They're open source, after all. The GPUs also have firmware blobs OK I think we need to back up a whole bunch here and talk directly about what is wanted a

Non-responsive maintainer callkalpa - FESCO issue #2580 - request for exception

2021-02-21 Thread Alex Perez
s person no longer has the time to dedicate to making sure these packages are usable. Kalpa is listed as a Fedora Ambassador for Sri Lanka, according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Callkalpa. Thank you for your consideration. Alex Perez

Re: Fedora 35 Change proposal: POWER 4k page size (System-Wide Change proposal)

2021-02-22 Thread Alex Perez
Daniel Pocock wrote on 2/22/21 10:41 AM: > I feel that you underestimate the impact of the GPU driver issue > > If the GPU driver doesn't work, people can't even log in and get started > > If the GPU vendors don't test their code on ppc64le (and aarch64) then > those platforms will always lag beh