Re: 'newpackager' is not in FAS, or How to co-maintain a package before getting sponsored

2012-09-29 Thread Robin Lee
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24:40PM +0800, Robin Lee wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu wrote: RL == Robin Lee cheese...@fedoraproject.org writes: RL Hi,

Re: 'newpackager' is not in FAS, or How to co-maintain a package before getting sponsored

2012-09-29 Thread Robin Lee
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 02:00:36PM +0800, Robin Lee wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24:40PM +0800, Robin Lee wrote: On Sat,

'newpackager' is not in FAS, or How to co-maintain a package before getting sponsored

2012-09-28 Thread Robin Lee
Hi, all I want to follow the route [1] to bring up a new packager. But when I try to approve commit privilege for him, pkgdb says: ... must be in one of these groups: ('cvsadmin', 'packager', 'provenpackager', 'newpackager') to hold the commit acl I think he should join the 'newpackager' FAS

Re: 'newpackager' is not in FAS, or How to co-maintain a package before getting sponsored

2012-09-28 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
RL == Robin Lee cheese...@fedoraproject.org writes: RL Hi, all I want to follow the route [1] to bring up a new RL packager. Then why not follow the procedure you referenced? It tells you what to do, which involves opening a ticket in the appropriate trac instance. - J -- devel mailing list

Re: 'newpackager' is not in FAS, or How to co-maintain a package before getting sponsored

2012-09-28 Thread Robin Lee
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.eduwrote: RL == Robin Lee cheese...@fedoraproject.org writes: RL Hi, all I want to follow the route [1] to bring up a new RL packager. Then why not follow the procedure you referenced? It tells you what to do, which

Re: 'newpackager' is not in FAS, or How to co-maintain a package before getting sponsored

2012-09-28 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24:40PM +0800, Robin Lee wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu wrote: RL == Robin Lee cheese...@fedoraproject.org writes: RL Hi, all I want to follow the route [1] to bring up a new RL packager. Then

Getting Sponsored (was Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...)

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
I'd like to add/note: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group#Become_a_co-maintainer is another way to become a packager. Simply work on/with an existing maintainer on their package (submit bug reports, help test, submit patches, etc) and then ask them if

Re: Getting Sponsored (was Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...)

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
Also along these lines... Perhaps this has been discussed before I'm not aware of it but do we really need to hold up a package because the submitter needs a sponsor? What I mean by that is, if I'm not misunderstanding the process, that a person who submits their first package must be sponsored

Re: Getting Sponsored (was Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...)

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:26:27 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: Also along these lines... Perhaps this has been discussed before I'm not aware of it but do we really need to hold up a package because the submitter needs a sponsor? What I mean by that is, if I'm not misunderstanding the process,

Re: Getting Sponsored

2011-11-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
RS == Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com writes: RS Perhaps this has been discussed before I'm RS not aware of it but do we really need to hold up a package because RS the submitter needs a sponsor? Yes, definitely. RS Does this make sense? Yes, it makes a lot of sense. We need to set some