On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 5:03 AM Carl George <c...@redhat.com> wrote: > > However, despite the good intentions, I've observed some frustrations > among Fedora packagers when collaborators are added via this process. > We do not want maintainers to feel rushed or circumvented. That said, > I am firmly of the opinion that nobody "owns" Fedora packages, we > maintain them. Packagers wanting to take action on EPEL requests > should have a way to do that if the existing maintainers have not > taken action within a reasonable amount of time. What I would like to > discuss is what amount of time is reasonable.
Have you asked the existing packagers who are unhappy with having other collaborators being added to a package when they have not yet responded why they did not respond? There difference between they never saw the email (and then sending even dozens might not matter), and they were so overwhelmed that they just had no time even to reply with something like "I'll get to this in (around) a month; ping me again then". And while you are asking that question, perhaps ask if the packager has any good ideas on alternative solutions that they think could work better (there may be some common thread in the responses). FWIW, while I think two weeks is a bit too tight (there are numerous events that can take someone away from such activities for more than two weeks(*)), knowing any common reasons for not responding may point to better approaches. Gary (*) And while a month seems better, I also see that timeframe being frustrating to others who want to use those packages, or to build dependent packages. No great answers. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-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/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
