Excerpts from Zhiwei Zhu's message of 2014-07-11 09:31:37 +1000:
Thanks. Understand the situation now.
Will discuss with my lead about the possibility to maintain the
packages by ourselves.
BTW, as we don't have experience of maintaining packages on epel, we
have no idea how much effort will be required to do that or how
difficult it would be.
Could you help to share something about this? I understand that there
is some kind of co-maintainer path to take for new maintainers but
don't how to start it.
I had hoped we would have Beaker ported off TG1 long before now, and
I was going to use the retirement of the EPEL7 TG1 stack as extra
motivation to get it done, but realistically we will be depending on it
for quite a while still, just like you Zhiwei.
So I can maintain the TG1 stack in EPEL7. I will start the un-retiring
process for all the packages we need and post the exact list here.
Zhiwei, if you would like to co-maintain that would be a great help. I'm
not able to sponsor you into the packager group, but I think you can be
a co-maintainer without a sponsor (actually I'm not sure about that...)
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