Dear EPEL team, Thank you for your clarification. I now understand that already-existing packages in Fedora require the branching process and should not be used for sponsorship requests.
Regarding the concerns raised about my intentions, I would like to state clearly that I have no interest in social engineering or manipulation. My only goal is to contribute practical, production-relevant packages to the EPEL ecosystem, especially for use cases in Japan. Due to technical constraints, developers located in Japan currently face persistent SSH connectivity failures to `src.fedoraproject.org`. HTTPS push also requires tokens that are only available to members of the packager group. As a result, for contributors in my situation, submitting SPEC/SRPMs and contributions through Bugzilla is effectively the only available path. I have recently submitted several new packages to EPEL10 that do not currently exist in the repository: - `lbzip2` (Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372800) - `smbldap-tools` (Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372942) - `xosview` (Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372805) - `amanda` (Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372857) - `ntfs-3g` (Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2372674) - `perl-Crypt-SmbHash` [GitHub: https://github.com/redadmin-k/perl-Crypt-SmbHash-almalinux9-rpm] - `rsh` [GitHub: https://github.com/redadmin-k/rsh-almalinux10-rpm] - `finger` [GitHub: https://github.com/redadmin-k/finger-almalinux10-rpm] These contributions are focused on packages missing from EPEL10 that are needed in real-world deployments, and I intend to maintain them long-term. If any sponsor is willing to support my efforts based on these current activities, I would be very grateful. Sincerely, Akiyoshi Kurita (FAS: redadmin) -- _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
