I sent such requests literally when they gave me access, and it seems
there may only be one or two individuals driving the package - of which
it's impossibly hard to get one of them to even respond. Last response
I had from Ondrej on the uploaders and team was "Join the maintainers
team" on Salsa, which I did and they granted me access -
https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx has the recent work which has
made the team "no longer inactive after a three week break". If this is
not enough to point at me having maintainer access to the VCS for
releasing the packages, then maybe Debian should do some research before
outright rejecting.
I'm happy to wait for one of their people to give me dak access or
sponsor the upload, however keep in mind that after 3 weeks with no
activity AND a merge request that took two weeks to get that would fix
the FTBFS that broke NGINX in Testing to begin with, we're staring at a
"Package is not fit for testing" problem currently that is nearly a
month old and hasn't been fixed yet. (However, given that I've been
making the commits on the Salsa repo that the packaging directly comes
from, I'm not sure if you mean something other than the NGINX Team on
Salsa when you refer to "maintainers" - I have 'Maintainer' access on
the Salsa repo itself that the packaging comes from)
Thomas
On 4/14/22 20:13, M. Zhou wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Thank you for the updates. Is this coordinated with the nginx maintainers?
Actually it is hard for any mentor outside that team to sponsor the upload.
And it seems there is no RC bug for nginx right now?
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nginx
BTW, you may want to first ask the nginx team and debian developers who
gave you salsa maintainer access for the DM access, instead of other debian
developers from mentors list.
Because a portion of the mentors have no experience with you (including me),
and hence we cannot make a decision on whether to grant you with DM access.
Once given without ack from original nginx maintainers, it still feels
like package hijacking.
According to nginx upload history, this will be the first time of your
upload... so it is indeed uneasy for an outsider (in terms of nginx)
to help.
On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 17:02 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
Debian Mentors,
Would a mentor be willing to upload this sooner than later as it fixes
some FTBFS / RC bugs? It'd be nice if said sponsor can also push a dak
command to ftp-master so I don't have to go via Mentors to upload nginx
releases (I've already been granted DM access for my packages, and am
now a maintainer in the Salsa repository for NGINX and should probably
have upload privs as well).
Thomas
On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:54:10 -0400 Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: important
>
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nginx":
>
> * Package name : nginx
> Version : 1.18.0-9
> Upstream Author : Igor Sysoev
> * URL : https://nginx.org
> * License : BSD-4-clause, Expat, BSD-2-clause, BSD-3-clause
> * Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx
> Section : httpd
>
> The source builds the following binary packages:
>
> nginx - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server
> nginx-doc - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server - documentation
> nginx-common - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server - common
files
> nginx-core - nginx web/proxy server (standard version)
> nginx-full - nginx web/proxy server (standard version with 3rd parties)
> nginx-light - nginx web/proxy server (basic version)
> nginx-extras - nginx web/proxy server (extended version)
> libnginx-mod-http-geoip - GeoIP HTTP module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-geoip2 - GeoIP2 HTTP module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-image-filter - HTTP image filter module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter - XSLT Transformation module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-mail - Mail module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-stream - Stream module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-stream-geoip - GeoIP Stream module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-stream-geoip2 - GeoIP2 Stream module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-perl - Perl module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam - PAM authentication module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-lua - Lua module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-ndk - Nginx Development Kit module
> libnginx-mod-nchan - Fast, flexible pub/sub server for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-echo - Bring echo and more shell style goodies to
Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair - Nginx Upstream Fair Proxy Load
Balancer
> libnginx-mod-http-headers-more-filter - Set and clear input and
> output headers for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-cache-purge - Purge content from Nginx caches
> libnginx-mod-http-fancyindex - Fancy indexes module for the Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-uploadprogress - Upload progress system for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter - Substitution filter module for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext - WebDAV missing commands support for Nginx
> libnginx-mod-rtmp - RTMP support for Nginx
>
> To access further information about this package, please visit the
> following URL:
>
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/nginx/
>
> Alternatively, you can download the package with 'dget' using this
command:
>
> dget -x
> https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nginx/nginx_1.18.0-9.dsc
>
> While we are at it, can a sponsor or DD please push a dak command to
> ftp-master so that I can use my Debian Maintainer status to push nginx
