On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 17:40:53 -0800, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Erich,

> 
> While working on getting Fedora Jam a bit more modernized for F33 (the
> backgrounds and themes haven't been touched since 2013!), I found that my
> predecessor (Brendan Jones) still has fedora-jam-kde-theme and
> fedora-jam-backgrounds. I think it's safe to say that since he abandoned Jam
> that these two packages are now orphaned.

Well, they're still being built, and they're not technically orphaned:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=14400
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-jam-backgrounds

> I have already moved the sources of both packages to pagure since they were
> formerly on his fedorahosted page. Additionally, I have simplified both
> packages into separate sources (used to be one git source) so I believe it's
> safe to say the .sh files from both srpms can be dropped. I just now opened a
> PR, but it appears as though Brendan is the owner and would have to accept 
> that
> PR. Unfortunately, I believe that's not going to happen as he was unresponsive
> with Ben Cotton's keepalive request for Jam, which is why I stepped-in.


> With that, I'd li ke to adopt both of these packages. 


If Brendan is non-responsive you can follow the non-responsive
maintainer policy to take over the packages:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers/

A proven packager can help in the meantime:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Provenpackager_policy/

> I understand that I still need to be sponsored into the packager
> group, and I still have 3 other packages undergoing review (all of
> which I have corrected per comments).

I'm sure you'll be sponsored soon, so that isn't a problem. Is a sponsor
already looking at your reviews?

-- 
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
Time zone: Europe/London

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