Re: EPEL-8 builds
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 04:48:41PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 4:36 PM Miroslav Suchý
<msuchy(a)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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