On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 11:28 PM Inglis, Malcolm via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Is someone willing to sponsor me into the `packager` group? I'd appreciate it!
(I was bouncing around the documentation for that, but it seems there's no formalized
process currently - sorry if I missed something)
I have two outstanding PRs that I think are hanging on uploading new sources to the
Lookaside Cache:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nfs-utils/pull-request/10 ,
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libesmtp/pull-request/1
I've been, and hope to continue, contributing small fixes for various packages that
I've noticed while working on AL packaging, and in regular personal usage. Over time,
I hope to do more.
Hi Malcolm,
Welcome to Fedora! It's great to see more Amazon Linux people joining up. :)
There *is* documentation for how to join the "packager" group, but it
is sometimes not very discoverable, depending on the exact search
terms you use ...
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Pack...
Making PRs and proving that you have understood the basics of Fedora /
RPM packaging is a good step towards getting sponsored.
If you want to go the direct route, you can open a ticket here, where
you can apply for sponsorship into the packager group directly:
https://pagure.io/packager-sponsors (don't forget to list your
contributions to Fedora in the ticket, i.e. accepted PRs, non-binding
package reviews, etc.)
And, you are right, not being able to upload sources for new versions
when making a PR is unfortunate. On the other hand, making it possible
to upload arbitrary files to Fedora servers for "untrusted" users is
not a good idea either. So we really don't have a good solution for
that yet ...
As Maxwell has noted in another reply, you can use a partial
workaround for this problem - by updating the "sources" and
".gitignore" files (running "fedpkg new-sources --offline"). Then a
packager group member can just upload the actual file(s) to the cache
and merge the PR - and this then doesn't require any additional
commits or changes to your PR.
Fabio / decathorpe