Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2011, 16:06 +0200 schrieb Nicolas Chauvet:
I'm the maintainer of opencv here.
quick answear: I have no right to submit a bodhi update for packages I
do not own. Given that I'm no in the provenpackager group.
So as I cannot expect every single maintainers to respond in time, the
consequence is that I depend on a provenpackager to do the whole task
of "administrative rebuilt of dependent packages".
Unfortunately it became a way more complicated task with the collapse
of two bodhi tickets and others unexpected behaviour.
IHMO the proper way to deal with this is:
1. Mail fedora-devel and owners of dependent packages (at least)
one week in advance. This is a requirement and written down in
our wiki [1]. repoquery and the foo-owner aliases should help
here.
2. Ask maintainers if they are ok with the update and willing/able
to do a rebuild in time. Offer to rebuild packages if people are
not able to do it. Request the necessary commit access in
packagedb.
3. Once you have sufficient feedback, update opencv.
4. Submit a buildroot overwrite for opencv but do not push it to
stable or testing.
5. Mail owners again and tell them they can now rebuild their
packages
6. Wait for feedback before you create an update. If you have
commit access, you can include dependent packages in the update.
Proven packager will not work.
7. Mail owners again when you push the update from one tag to
another.
Regards,
Christoph
[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Notify_...