On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 09:01:00AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 22:22:40 +0100 > Emmanuel Seyman <emman...@seyman.fr> wrote: > > > Hello, folks. > > > > A while back, a few of us went through a mad rush to get our packages > > in EPEL. This lead to a number of situations where the main > > maintainer of a package didn't want to maintain the EPEL8 version of > > his package and we had to wait for a proven-packager to push to the > > branch. > > > > I'ld like to propose we create a perl-packagers-sig group so that we > > can have non-proven packagers being able to git push. > > > > Thoughts? Opinions? Rotten tomatoes? > > This is fine by me but would mainly need buy-in from the packagers that > don't want to support EPEL as they'd have to have perl-packagers-sig > group added to their packages and they might have concerns about other > people committing updates in the Fedora branches. > Moreover the group can be perceived as a proxy hiding the real packagers into a fog of anonymity. Read whoever becomes a member of the group, including in the far future, can push into my package, in that future. If I were against approving people, I would be definitly against approving opaque groups.
The group could help decrease the bureaucracy when maintainers agree. But I'd still prefer a Fedora maintainer to maintain the EPEL. Because when a Fedora maintainer decides whether to push a new version to an older Fedora, can also decide on EPEL. Having two different maintainers means doubling the work. I can confess that I would forgot on my EPEL packages otherwise. Therefore I will probably still keep asking Fedora maintainers whether they want to do the package in EPEL themselves. Emanuel, I think you should create the group, let's see whether it becomes used and useful. -- Petr
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