On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 04:48:41PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 4:36 PM Miroslav Suchý <msu...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > Dne 07. 11. 19 v 11:12 Peter Robinson napsal(a): > > > I'd like to know why people are pushing EPEL-8 builds without engaging > > > with the maintainers of the packages. > > > > Because they can? > > Nothing in guidelines say: "you have to contact maintainer of different > > branch when you request new one". > > If there's specific reasons that a maintainer wouldn't want it in el8 > surely the right thing to do would be to engage so they could at least > offer to co-maintain it for el8. I feel it's wrong to assume that > someone is able to take on the load of maintaining the package for the > lifetime of el8 without engagement. If the person doesn't have the > time or interest it just ends up with something that will bitrot and > give everyone a bad experience. > > I feel the guidelines should include those requirements or something > similar else it's just hostile to expect that someone takes up that > extra load whether they want to or not!.
Yeah, the epel guidelines do, but I don't think there's any enforcement. :( Long back in the pkgdb days the way it worked is that you request a branch and if you are maintainer/comaintainer you can just have it, if you are not you had to wait at least a week for the maintainers to ack/nack the request. Sadly, I don't think there was any notification of these, so people would just request and wait a week and get the branch. Perhaps we can add a check to the new branch request thing that hopefully will land soon. Pingou? I'd even be ok with just requiring you be a maintainer to request the branch. It's completely not right to sign someone else up for a bunch of work without their consent. kevin
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