Re: Sponsor shortage

2015-07-10 Thread Ben Rosser
nger work anymore, which tells me it's definitely been a long time since anyone even looked at them. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879839 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997190 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986550 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1005518 Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Sponsor shortage

2015-07-11 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:25:05 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > Speaking as someone who relatively recently went through the process > though > > (and whose package(s) sat in the review tracker for two years): > m

Adobe CMap resources license change

2015-09-08 Thread Ben Rosser
will push updates for F23 also. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Adobe CMap resources license change

2015-09-08 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ben Rosser wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am not certain if any packages other than my python-pdfminer are > > currently using my packages of the Adobe CMap resources ( > > https://github.com/a

Re: Proposal to reduce anti-bundling requirements

2015-09-15 Thread Ben Rosser
top environments, but it's sort of the extreme edge case of what I'm talking about). Now, like I said, we don't have the manpower to support multiple versions of KDE or GNOME ourselves, so I'm not seriously suggesting we do that, or that we should go against our prin

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-16 Thread Ben Rosser
n packages for a node application [1] and its dependencies, and it's increasingly difficult due to old dependencies, even when they're not FTBFS or FTI or orphaned. I don't have the bandwidth to take over all of these, but I'd be willing to join some kind of collective effort to impr

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-17 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 5:38 PM Jared K. Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:41 PM Ben Rosser wrote: >> >> So... this is a lot of node.js packages, and I haven't really seen any >> discussion of this on the lists. And at least some of these are possibly

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-18 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:50 PM Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 6:30 PM Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 5:38 PM Jared K. Smith > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:41 PM Ben Rosser wrote: > > &

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-22 Thread Ben Rosser
top their retirement? I've gone ahead and taken mocha (running tests will be useful regardless of whether or not we start bundling NPM modules). I haven't yet figured out what I need to take to keep it + my other node packages alive for now, but I'll work through that this eveni

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-22 Thread Ben Rosser
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:34 AM Sérgio Basto wrote: > > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 11:29 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 3:09 PM Stephen Gallagher < > > sgall...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > The Node.js SIG is very loosely organized. If you are a pack

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (~200 nodejs packages to be retired in 2 days)

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
nly wanted to take what I actually needed for mocha and discord-irc. I think this is the complete list; if I'm wrong, I guess I'll find out.) Can I do this via releng ticket or do I need to actually go to each page on Pagure and click the button? Ben Rosser Ben Rosser ___

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (~200 nodejs packages to be retired in 2 days)

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
guess I'll find out.) > > > > Can I do this via releng ticket or do I need to actually go to each > > page on Pagure and click the button? > > I've done it in bulk. Thanks for talking them. Thanks Miro, much appreciated! Just to add: I've also taken uglify-js

Re: Orphaned 215 packages

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 5:24 PM Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:53 AM Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 11:34 AM Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 11:29 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > > O

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (~200 nodejs packages to be retired in 2 days)

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:38 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 23. 06. 20 21:11, Ben Rosser wrote: > > Thanks Miro, much appreciated! > > You are welocme. > > However, I am afraid I have some bad news. The recent report in > https://churchyard.fedorapeople.org/orphans.tx

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers (~200 nodejs packages to be retired in 2 days)

2020-06-23 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 7:23 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 24. 06. 20 1:10, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 24. 06. 20 1:07, Ben Rosser wrote: > >> Some of my nodejs packages are an artifact of a failed attempt to > >> package quassel-webserver [1], which I eventually

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-26 Thread Ben Rosser
lt was *actively harmful* to vi's chances > in my case. :P Same here, to be honest. Being dropped into vi when I ran some command (I think it was visudo?) was honestly pretty traumatizing as a new Linux user a ~decade ago, and to this day one of the first things I do on

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-26 Thread Ben Rosser
> usage a bit nicer. 'vi' and 'emacs -nw' don't ask. The -t/--tempfile switch for nano (and pico) does exactly this: https://linux.die.net/man/1/nano Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make nano the default editor

2020-06-26 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:46 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:38:40PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 12:32 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 01:18:59PM -0400

Self introduction

2012-05-21 Thread Ben Rosser
Hello all, I've been sitting silently in this mailing list for the past few weeks, but just this afternoon submitted my first package review request for pdfminer, a Python library for extracting plaintext, HTML, and images from a pdf file: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679 I lear

Review request

2012-05-27 Thread Ben Rosser
Hey all, I'm still looking for someone to review my first package, PDFMiner: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679 As I am looking for a sponser, I'm afraid I can't formally review any of your packages in return, but I'd be glad to do some unofficial reviews and help fix any problems

Re: Review request

2012-05-29 Thread Ben Rosser
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Adrian Alves wrote: > We can trade reviews I can review ur package and u can review mines > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ben Rosser wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I'm still looking for someone to review m

Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-16 Thread Ben Rosser
In Fedora 17, when you install grub2 and generate a fresh config file, that config is produced by grub2-mkconfig. However, when you install a kernel update, the kernel's entry is added to the grub2 boot menu by grubby. This produces messy grub boot menus. The entries added by grubby read something

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-18 Thread Ben Rosser
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > I'm not willing to change the kernel spec file for this. > > The kernel calls 'new-kernel-pkg', which today is provided by grubby. > Despite the similar name, grubby actually works with more than just > grub and grub2. It also supports bootlo

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-19 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > Like I mentioned two days ago, the only thing that matters for EC2 > images is that the kernel post-install scripts continue to be capable > of updating grub configuration files, which means that wholesale > replacement of grubby with gr

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-20 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Peter Jones wrote: > I think what's actually needed is a small patch to grubby to make it keep > track of the bounding block the current default is in and add the new > bounding block there, so that we don't accidentally change the cosmetic > properties of the gru

Re: Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

2012-06-21 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > As I understood it, the latest version of the proposal involves having > grubby simply call grub2-mkconfig when it is dealing with grub2. So the > rest of the 'stack' doesn't change at all. > Well, my proposal is basically this: If the b

Submitting packages while awaiting sponsorship

2012-07-05 Thread Ben Rosser
Hello all, I'm still looking for someone to review my Python package ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679 ), and then hopefully sponsor me as a packager- if anyone would be interested in doing either that would be greatly appreciated, and I'd try to review one of your packages in t

Re: F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

2014-06-14 Thread Ben Rosser
> -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Amen. I've been wanting to chime in here, but this is exactly how I feel o

Re: Xulrunner - intent to remove from Fedora 24

2016-01-27 Thread Ben Rosser
, but chatzilla appears to still under active development here: https://hg.mozilla.org/chatzilla/shortlog. However, the package appears to be five releases behind now (0.9.92 was released last August according to Wikipedia), and I don't know what chatzilla upstream is planning to do as a

Bundled/embedded data in a package

2012-09-12 Thread Ben Rosser
So I've had a review ticket open on bugzilla for a while now for this package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679 The software, pdfminer, bundles Adobe cmap data to process Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages in a pdf file. However, the question is: does this violate the genera

Re: Bundled/embedded data in a package

2012-09-14 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Nicolas Mailhot < nicolas.mail...@laposte.net> wrote: > > Adobe CMAP is used by lots of font, ps and pdf related apps and IIRC > packaging it is currently on the wishlist. > > You should unbundle it and create a separate package. > > I don't think CMAP has security

Re: Bundled/embedded data in a package

2012-09-20 Thread Ben Rosser
Here's a preliminary cmap rpm review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859246 So far, the only package I've worked on making this compatible with is my own, pdfminer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823679. So it will almost certainly require modifications to work ni

Re: [Feature Suggestion] UsrMove continued

2012-10-10 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Seth Vidal wrote: > > I cannot agree enough. Just b/c we've blundered down a bad route doesn't > mean you cannot turn back. > > Instead of chiseling our way back, let's just revert and go. > > Not every decision a distribution makes is a good one, lets not get caug

Re: still UsrMove problems and wrong PATH in openssh

2012-10-31 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > this is WRONG behavior > > any upstream-script the next years will use #!/bin/perl and > it would be idiotic to write patches for every application > only becasue fdora decided to make UsrMove > > UsrMove is a distribution-feature > and so

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-05-27 Thread Ben Rosser
on to philosophical questions like what a "logout" really means > or should mean, before the change landed. > > Rich > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Policy > -- > I agree; just because the change happened upstream in systemd doesn't mean that this shouldn't be evaluated in Fedora itself before being turned on by default. This absolutely seems like the kind of thing that should be a system-wide change proposal (for F25, I guess). Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: systemd 230 change - KillUserProcesses defaults to yes

2016-06-01 Thread Ben Rosser
Even if I accept for the moment that letting a user keep processes running on a system when they log out should be considered "privileged", this is a privilege that has more or less always been granted to users by default. Why do we suddenly need to change the default? Sure, providing fun

Re: reviews swap [giac,crawl]

2016-06-07 Thread Ben Rosser
ailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > I've taken crawl, any chance you could review elog ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302504) in return? Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-14 Thread Ben Rosser
Flatpak? The latter makes sense to me, the former seems potentially controversial. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-14 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 15:40 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > This is a slight tangent, but by "remove Fedora packages", do you > > mean > > actually remove them from the distribution entirely or simply not &g

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-16 Thread Ben Rosser
ut if someone is willing to maintain a traditional package of a piece of software that also has a flatpak available, I really think we should let them do so. We're not, as so far as I know, in the habit of telling the maintainers of leaf Python packages "please retire your package and let

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-16 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > ship pip, npm, etc? Where I become uncomfortable, and the reason I chimed > > in on this thread initially, is with the idea that these new > container

Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

2016-06-17 Thread Ben Rosser
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 02:24:26PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > I think that once the full sandboxing / portal system is in place, > > > there _will_ be a tangible reason to prefer Flatpak. > > Well, assumi

Review swap?

2016-07-02 Thread Ben Rosser
edora, too. Thanks in advance, Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F25 System Wide Change: KillUserProcesses=yes by default

2016-07-09 Thread Ben Rosser
y whitelisted if the package providing it installed. Just an idea that I probably haven't fully thought through yet... it may have even been something mentioned on the last thread. This just seems like it might be a better approach than trying to patch an arbitrary number of programs, though?

Re: F25 System Wide Change: KillUserProcesses=yes by default

2016-07-09 Thread Ben Rosser
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris Murphy > > wrote: > >> > >> I think this needs to be rethought. The options right now are, modify &

Re: Improvements of Fedora Sponsorship process

2016-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
say, Python or NodeJS packages, but it might help if we want to automatically catalog the queue. Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Improvements of Fedora Sponsorship process

2016-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
looked at the Mageia how-to-become-a-packager process briefly a while ago (my laptop dual-boots Fedora and Mageia, although I am primarily a Fedora person), and I did notice how it seemed more hands on than ours. A dedicated place for new contributors to go and meet potential spon

Review swap for spasm-ng

2016-08-26 Thread Ben Rosser
Is anyone interested in a review swap? I think this is a relatively simple package, so I'd be willing to take something small in exchange. spasm-ng: A z80 assembler with extra features for TI calculators https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325378 Ben Rosser -- devel mailing list

Re: How to package a Git repository

2016-09-09 Thread Ben Rosser
t sources. Sets _builddir to current working directory. Skips handling of -n and untar in the %setup and the deletion of the buildSubdir." This might be helpful, if the current working directory is the root of the git repository. I think it's a relatively new option-- I seem to r

Re: Please unpush FEDORA-2016-7776983633 on all releases or drop support for libjasper

2016-09-14 Thread Ben Rosser
), and new packages have theoretically just been tested by both the maintainer (when packaging them) and the reviewer (when reviewing them), so there is likely less need for further testing than there would be for other updates. And also, it should be significantly less likely for a new package to bre

Re: Review Swaps

2016-09-16 Thread Ben Rosser
nd - Frontend for the ResultsDB > * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346245 > > Thanks, > > Tim > Taken resultsdb_frontend, any chance you could look at hddfancontrol? ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373666). Thanks, Ben Rosser ___

Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?

2012-12-13 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Fernando Nasser wrote: > What is the difficult on adding a file to yum.repo.d ? > > It is designed for that. Each initial page for an aditional repo would > have instructions on how to activate it and provide a repo file to copy > from. The difficulty is that,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: > On 05/02/13 12:09 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> >> In the Gnome2 days you had choices between functionally similar DEs. >> >> Times have changed ... Gnome has been forked multiply (Gnome3, MATE, >> Cinammon), xfce/enlightenment are back.

Re: Review Swaps: (mostly) very simple golang packages

2017-03-14 Thread Ben Rosser
a.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411962 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411961 Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora Modules & Fedora 27 Server Edition (Changes)

2017-06-26 Thread Ben Rosser
Many of the packages I maintain are essentially one-offs that I'm not convinced will ever belong in a specific module-- where would things like this end up? Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Review swaps

2017-07-03 Thread Ben Rosser
ow_bug.cgi?id=1426962 nodejs-simple-markdown - Javascript markdown parsing, made simple: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463821 nodejs-irc-colors - Color and formatting for irc made easy: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463797

Re: Review swaps

2017-07-03 Thread Ben Rosser
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Sandro Mani wrote: > Hi Ben > > I'm happy to take the first two in exchange for > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461368 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1465676 > > which are simple C/C++ MinGW packages. Deal? > > Thanks > Sandro Taken

Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

2017-07-16 Thread Ben Rosser
latpaks over RPMs, that doesn't particularly bother me. So I have no issue with this particular change. But I felt like I should chime in here because this change thread has turned (as any discussion on flatpak seems to) into a general discussion o

Unretire python-sockjs-tornado

2016-05-10 Thread Ben Rosser
swap for either of these. Ben Rosser [1] https://github.com/mrjoes/sockjs-tornado [2] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page [3] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/seesaw -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F26 Self Contained Change: Module Build Service

2016-11-07 Thread Ben Rosser
current developers" writeup somewhere? (by which I mean "Fedora developers" in general). Ben Rosser [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Modularity ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Review swaps

2016-11-22 Thread Ben Rosser
* nodejs-int64-buffer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397620 * nodejs-qtdatastream: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397621 (depends on nodejs-int64-buffer) Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Rawhide aarch64: gcc bus error

2016-11-30 Thread Ben Rosser
i build fired in response to (among a few other things) a glibc upgrade, I wonder if this is a glibc bug on aarch64? Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Proposal: Rethink Fedora multilib support

2017-01-05 Thread Ben Rosser
ike it or not, users, myself included, install nonfree software like Steam on systems and generally expect it to continue working from release to release. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Applications with AppData and not visible in the software center

2017-01-05 Thread Ben Rosser
estingly, it seems that "appstream-util validate-relax --nonet" doesn't seem to care. It happily validates tilp2's appstream information [2], which is why I never noticed this at the time. I would think that "referenced desktop file doesn't exist on system" shoul

License change in quasselc

2017-01-20 Thread Ben Rosser
uthor and still compatible with the new license, as quassel-irssi is the only Fedora package depending on quasselc at this time. Ben Rosser [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#License_Changes [2] https://github.com/phhusson/QuasselC/c

Re: CPE Weekly: 2020-04-04

2020-04-06 Thread Ben Rosser
eriod of time... and nothing I've read in any of these threads so far has helped reassure me that's not the case. Not saying you're wrong that it would be nice to have the ability to poll a broader selection of packagers. But I'm not sure using

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-10-02 Thread Ben Rosser
n than it is the first thing most new contributors will interact with, so perhaps it is in our interest to make it as pleasant as possible. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lis

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-10-02 Thread Ben Rosser
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:17 PM Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 1:59 PM Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > There are regularly people complaining on this very list about how hard > > packaging has become. So here is a thread trying to see if you can come up > &

Re: Unretire nodejs-gaze

2019-10-02 Thread Ben Rosser
w request if >> we can get this unretired before the deadline. > > > It looks like this has been un-retired, so I'll go ahead and try to push an > updated build to rawhide just as soon as the Koji outage is over. Oops, I missed that you had requested a re-review. Thanks! L

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-10-07 Thread Ben Rosser
Pagure showed that information too. If nothing else, it would save me a click or two when trying to check if a package is up to date. > Trying to improve the package review process is something that has been in my > radar for a while now but n

Re: Has fedpkg + dist-git replaced rpmbuild for building new/local packages?

2019-10-07 Thread Ben Rosser
ideline compliant) 6. rpmbuild -bs && mock ../SRPMS/foo*.src.rpm until it builds (and is guideline compliant) 7. Upload somewhere when it is ready for review I agree that this might not be the ideal workflow to teach new packagers, but I don't think it is terrible.

Re: Modularity and the system-upgrade path

2019-10-13 Thread Ben Rosser
It's certainly true that the loudest and most unhappy voices tend to dominate discussions, but so far I haven't seen many people speak up who are enthusiastic about modularity who aren't also involved in it in some way. Granted, that could well change over time as improvements

Re: Modularity and all the things

2019-10-25 Thread Ben Rosser
ora. We should decide what is and isn't acceptable to modularize, what the rules are and aren't for creating and upgrading streams, and so on. And if we can't figure out a way to square the goals for modularity with the necessary guidelines to not cause major problems in the distri

Re: EPEL-8 builds

2019-11-07 Thread Ben Rosser
maintainer first: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Announcing new anitya integration and de-orphaning process

2019-11-30 Thread Ben Rosser
pkgdb before implementing new features like stream expansion. But in any case, I'm really glad that we do now finally have anitya integration and easy de-orphaning back in pkgdb. Thanks to everyone who made this happen! Ben Rosser ___

Re: js-jquery - Re: List of long term FTBFS packages to be retired in February (beta)

2019-12-03 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:18 AM Tom Hughes wrote: > > Ben Rosser was working on sorting out grunt. In fact I believe he > took the first of those at least. > > Tom > > On 03/12/2019 07:45, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > According to [1], these are the packages which need to

Re: modular protobuf issue (Dec. 6, 2019) recap

2019-12-06 Thread Ben Rosser
of that RPM? (I realize that in this particular case, Igor is on FESCo, and so had the policy been followed more carefully, he would have been aware anyway). Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Unretiring some nodejs packages

2019-08-26 Thread Ben Rosser
e required. Still, the policy requires an announcement on this list, so here it is. :) Cheers, Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Condu

Re: Orphaned packages looking for new maintainers

2019-08-27 Thread Ben Rosser
mizdebsk, orphan 3 weeks ago ... > reflections orphan 4 weeks ago I have one Java package that requires both of these... although I'm sure if I take them I'll wind up needing to take more of the Java stack too. I guess I'll t

Re: University people in Fedora: Education/University SIG

2019-08-30 Thread Ben Rosser
Gs/Education > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/University Hi Timothée, I think this is a great initiative! Maybe it's a bit early to ask, but I'm curious what sort of projects you see a SIG focusing on? (If grad students would be welcome here too, I might be interested. :) ) C

Review swap

2019-09-17 Thread Ben Rosser
Hi all, Is anyone interested in a review swap for a Python(-ish) package? cocotb: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1747574 Happy to review anything in exchange. Cheers, Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-09-26 Thread Ben Rosser
the use case of the "ordinary packager", not the "expert packager". And I think that's packages with limited divergence from upstream (only a few patches) that only one, _maybe_ two, people regularly touch. Ben Rosser ___ devel mai

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-09-26 Thread Ben Rosser
a bad idea and won't improve things. We need to keep the simple/everyday use cases in mind here. I like that I can build a Fedora package with just a specfile-- essentially, a bit of metadata about how to build and install a package-- and don't need to

Re: Defining the future of the packager workflow in Fedora

2019-09-26 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 5:29 PM Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:46:32PM +0200, Ben Rosser wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:29 PM Pierre-Yves Chibon > > wrote: > > > There is a clear initial rejection of a PR-only contribution model. I >

Unretire nodejs-gaze

2019-10-01 Thread Ben Rosser
tired just under eight weeks ago for being FTBFS-- on 2019-08-08. Hopefully it still is within the deadline for not requiring rereview (that's eight weeks on Thursday)! I'll submit a releng ticket, and am notifying devel as requested by the policy. S

Unretire unshield

2020-02-07 Thread Ben Rosser
re.io/releng/issue/9236 Thanks in advance, Ben Rosser ___ 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-co

Re: Invalid body, keys: sls missing

2020-02-13 Thread Ben Rosser
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:01 PM Jerry James wrote: > > I'm trying to get an f32 branch for a newly created package. Branch > creation has failed twice now with the error in $SUBJECT: > > https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/22127 > > Can I get a human to look at that ticket instead

Re: Packaging FOSS that requires MATLab at runtime

2018-12-04 Thread Ben Rosser
thread from September, for instance: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/FZZVKXUOW3TNUNX2JV2JGPUWFFGS3V3C/#426PWWHO6FVWBQSC6PP2D5HIKBONY6UE Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: How to avoid re-generating Pagure API keys all the time?

2018-12-10 Thread Ben Rosser
there was an opposition to the idea, there just wasn't enough time or person-power to do it: https://pagure.io/pagure/issue/2549 Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedo

Re: How to avoid re-generating Pagure API keys all the time?

2018-12-11 Thread Ben Rosser
I am complaining on the devel list and not actually doing anything to help, so I guess I'm part of the problem too). Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedo

Re: How to avoid re-generating Pagure API keys all the time?

2018-12-12 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:07 PM Till Maas wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:42:51AM +0100, Ben Rosser wrote: > > > I don't know. I feel like we could do a lot to improve the experience > > of packaging by investing time into fixing these sorts of m

Re: How to avoid re-generating Pagure API keys all the time?

2018-12-13 Thread Ben Rosser
7;t think it is going to happen on its own without some sort of organization to make it happen, and to try and organize/focus the work. I don't know if that organization requires an Objective to make happen, but I think it would be nice to enshrine this as one of our medium-term goals. Cheers,

Organizing a "packager experience" objective and working group

2019-01-10 Thread Ben Rosser
interested in helping out, please feel free to add your own thoughts as well. Sincerely, Ben Rosser [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/FYNU7W6KQQWA65JWVPUFDHKUP3RX6EKR/ [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Packager_Experience __

Unretiring rtv

2019-01-10 Thread Ben Rosser
stream releases which built just fine with Python 3.7-- upstream still seems to be active. I've submitted a new review here (and also built the package in copr): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1665303 Happy to exchange a review swap.

Re: Organizing a "packager experience" objective and working group

2019-01-14 Thread Ben Rosser
nd like a good idea? (Maybe #fedora-packaging, if it is not in use? Or maybe #fedora-packaging-qol or something instead.) Cheers, Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fe

Re: Organizing a "packager experience" objective and working group

2019-01-14 Thread Ben Rosser
could then be deleted from copr once the package gets approved (or removed if the review is closed WONTFIX, or something). Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: /etc/yum.repos.d -> /etc/distro.repos.d

2019-03-13 Thread Ben Rosser
the change, but it's not clear to me that there is one beyond a desire to get away from using the name "yum". Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Reviewing a package with an rpmfusion dependency

2019-03-18 Thread Ben Rosser
ut I think the difficulty is that you can't rely on ffmpeg being provided by RPM Fusion, because users could have a non-RPM-Fusion repository on their system that provides ffmpeg, so if could be dangerous to make assumptions about what the "ffmpeg" package actually is? Cheers

Re: Orphaning js-jquery

2019-04-26 Thread Ben Rosser
a group* should prepare and submit an objective proposal describing what they want to work on. Ben Rosser ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http

Re: Automating Package Review (Was: fedora-review -- do we have a maintainer?)

2018-08-16 Thread Ben Rosser
esults to the packager, I bet we would catch a lot of the licensing/bundling problems. Anyway, I really like this idea. Maybe we should still require quasi-manual reviews for new contributors as part of the sponsorship process, though? Ben Rosser ___ deve

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