On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 03:15:24PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 10:57:42AM +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Recently, there have been a lot of discussions on this list as well
> > as we have internally about onboarding. During our internal
> > brainstorming, we were initially discussing that it could be useful
> > to have some package one can experiment with without being too much
> > worried about the result.
> > 
> > However, discussing this back and forth, we figured that it might
> > also be good idea to actually have something such as "onboarding"
> > package, where new coming package maintainer could gradually gain
> > experience with the packaging workflows. So the simplest tasks could
> > be:
> > 
> > 1) Add changelog entry into onboarding package and open PR with the
> > change. This would not require too many privileges. Alternatively
> > this could include change to "CONTRIBUTORS" file. I suspect that
> > also some current Fedora contributors might be interested to send
> > such PR ;)
> > 
> > 2) Second step could be something similar, but that would require
> > the packager to be already sponsored and they could go through the
> > whole process themeselves just with some light guidance if needed.
> > 
> > This could be extended in the future. E.g. next step could be:
> > 
> > 3) Submit module update.
> > 
> > Apart from gaining experience, this could also help with the common
> > question "where should I start". And of course our sponsoring
> > guidelines could be refreshed suggesting/requesting to take these
> > steps at some point.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> It's a good idea, but it's probably also a good idea to block it from
> installation at the dnf level.  If it was open to everyone even
> non-sponsored then someone could anonymously put something nasty in it,
> like a %post script.

I don't think it'll be "open to anyone". In the described workflow,
non-approved packagers can only open PRs (like they already can against
any package).

Zbyszek
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