On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 01:09:06PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:40:41 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > > these packages (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jonludlam/opam/) > > > > about a year ago and never heard back, so... technically I guess I > > > > could proceed with the non-responsive maintainer policy. But is that > > > > the right thing to do? > > > > > > If he wasn't sponsored, then he couldn't have requested the package > > > repository to be created in Fedora git, so technically I think you (or > > > anyone else) could open another review request, have it approved and > > > import the package themselves. > > > > Well, this package has been approved, and it could be useful so I > > don't mind importing it myself. I think the fact the review was done > > 2 years ago shouldn't matter much as the OCaml packaging guidelines > > haven't changed significantly. > > > > Unless anyone objects I'll import it when I get to it in the current > > OCaml rebuild (https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6906). > > The ticket blocks FE-NEEDSPONSOR. No idea why you've approved the review > officially, setting the fedora-review+ flag without being able to > sponsor the new contributor. That has removed the ticket from the tracker > list: http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEEDSPONSOR.html > > You could have become a sponsor a long time ago, if you wanted to > guide new packagers into the project.
I'm sponsoring a dozen people already (more than that I think). The reason I didn't sponsor this one is because I'm at the maximum I can reasonably sponsor. Rich. > While any reviewer may post reviews these days and take over a lot of > work that way, that doesn't work if there is no sponsor to complete > the process. And most of the existing sponsors face the typical problem > that they don't feel like sponsoring a complete stranger, who dumps > a single src.rpm into bugzilla without demonstrating interest in becoming > the Fedora maintainer of the package. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
