On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:39:39AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 05:56, Ben Rosser wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What is the right thing to do when a package's review is approved, but > > the package never gets imported into the distribution because the > > packager subsequently becomes non-responsive? > > > > Is the non-responsive maintainer policy appropriate, or should the > > review be resubmitted entirely? > > > > I've seen this in a few places and not been entirely sure what to do, > > as this isn't entirely spelled out in our policies. But the specific > > example I'm looking at right now is ocaml-re > > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174036), which was > > approved back in 2015 but has not been imported.
The story with this package (and I think there were some others) is that they are required for 'opam' which is a source-based OCaml packaging tool (think: Perl and the ‘cpan’ command). Jon Ludlam turned up wanting to get opam into Fedora. Although opam modules "compete" in some sense with the Fedora ocaml-* RPMs we create, there are slightly different use cases because opam can access development versions of OCaml which we don't tend to package, and it also confines itself to the user's home directory, so I don't think there's anything particularly wrong about this. However Jon did then disappear before we got all the opam dependencies into Fedora, so that was that. > > Now the contributor in question (Jon Ludlam) hasn't been sponsored, > > but they've also been generally unresponsive to other review requests > > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172771). I also sent Jon > > an email inquiring about the state of his copr repository providing > > these packages (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jonludlam/opam/) > > about a year ago and never heard back, so... technically I guess I > > could proceed with the non-responsive maintainer policy. But is that > > the right thing to do? > > If he wasn't sponsored, then he couldn't have requested the package > repository to be created in Fedora git, so technically I think you (or > anyone else) could open another review request, have it approved and > import the package themselves. Well, this package has been approved, and it could be useful so I don't mind importing it myself. I think the fact the review was done 2 years ago shouldn't matter much as the OCaml packaging guidelines haven't changed significantly. Unless anyone objects I'll import it when I get to it in the current OCaml rebuild (https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6906). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
