On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Till Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 02:45:15PM +0000, Niels de Vos wrote: > >> it looks like not all Fedora 13 packages can be build on ARM yet. For >> some packages there have been tickets opened at the Trac instance: >> - https://fedorahosted.org/arm/report/1 >> >> I'd like to help out with building these packages, but am not a >> 'proven packager' [1], so I can not fix the issues completely and rely > >> I'd like some advise on the best/efficient way forward. Any other >> thoughts are also more than welcome! > > Submitting patches to Bugzilla is the recommended way for this. > >> Possibly I could request to become a proven packager [2], but I do not >> know if fixing building ARM-packages is enough to get FESCo approve my >> request. > > Even if you are a proven packager you should still ask the maintainer > for approval of patches to avoid unwanted side-effects, but you can do > the work to update the package. I do not know how much you already have > contributed to Fedora to prove that you are a experienced packager. If > you think it is not enough, you submit more patches using bugzilla for > now and ask for provenpackager membership once you got more feedback > from packagers or more patches accepted. In general helping to fix > secondary arch build issues is a proper reason to become a proven > packager.
That's more or less the plan I have at the moment. I'll file some more BZ's and see if the patches get picked up. > Btw. if there are packagers that agree to a patch you submitted but lack > the time to update the package, you can ping me and I will help. > Maybe this helps to speed up the patch approval. You might want to > mention this possibility on the bug reports to get the packagers faster > to agree. There are probably also other proven packagers here on the ARM > list that will help with this. That's very good to know. I'll likely come back on your offer, or maybe I'll send an email at [email protected] to see how other architectures handle it. Many thanks for all the input, Niels _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
