On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:00:15AM -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > On 11/05/2013 12:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >On 11/05/2013 07:51 AM, Don Zickus wrote: > >>On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:33:33PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >>>Ping :) > >>> > >>>Even a cursory blog post somewhere (or a reply to this email!) > >>>explaining to people how to *experiment* with this would be helpful. At > >>>the moment I'm having to point people at the merged pull request to say > >>>"Yes, in theory, you can use the upcoming version of autotest as a > >>>Beaker test harness", but I have zero resources to give them on how to > >>>actually run it (because I don't actually know myself). > >> > >>So playing with things a little more.. > >> > >>> > >>>1. How do you get the experimental version of autotest to play with? Is > >>>there a pre-built RPM somewhere that people can use, or do they have to > >>>build their own? > >> > >>Unfortunately, I see autotest-0.15 has not been packaged with Fedora 20 > >>for some reason. > >> > >>Lucas, > >> > >>Why is Fedora using a version of autotest from a year ago instead of > >>something far more recent???? > > Because it is a big PITA to get Fedora to approve new package reviewers. > > It is been months that cleber is dilligently going from review to > review to finally become one, but it usually takes 20 days every > iteration. At this staggering rate, he'll become a Fedora package > mantainer by 2016. Seriously, I've been thinking "ok, now the > package maintainership thing will be sorted out any minute now" for > the past 4 months. > > Now once he becomes a package maintainer, up to date packages will > start to show up.
Odd. Maybe that is for new packages. For existing packages it has taken me less than a week to get approved to become a maintainer (with commit privileges) for a package. Cleber, can you point me to some of the hold-ups on getting you approved? Being in Westford, I might be able to poke people directly to move things along quicker. 20 days seems awfully long and would be a big turn-off to get new Fedora contributors/maintainers (something I assumed Fedora wanted to avoid). Cheers, Don _______________________________________________ Beaker-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/beaker-devel
