Hello, Brian.
On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 23:08, Brian Sipos wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've been working with RHEL and CentOS packages since about 2011, but
> mostly in the domain of private Yum repositories. I've done some work
> in the past with the SUSE Build Service also. I'm familiar with
> Redhat/Fedora packaging guidelines but not with Fedora-specific
> development tooling. I've also been involved in the Redhat bugzilla
> and submitted several library patches for packaging (but never managed
> a package or package branch itself).
That's great! Welcome to Fedora.
> Since RHEL/CentOS 8 has been released now, I'm interested in helping
> with the migration of packages into the EPEL-8 repository. My focus is
> on some particular scientific computing packages which are available
> in EPEL-7 but not yet in EPEL- 8. I've not been able to find any good
> information about this type of thing; does anyone have any pointers?
Do you have any specific packages in mind? I maintain a number of
scientific packages but I'd be happy to hand over some of them to
someone who's actually using them.
> My first thought would be to start rebuilding "fc28" packages for
> "el8" but I don't want to duplicate effort if there is already
> coordinated EPEL-8 targeting for some of these packages. The link at <
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_do_I_request_a_EPEL_branch_for_an_existing_Fedora_package.3F
> > points to the old "PackageDB" process but that appears to be
> > superseded by the
> "fedpkg" tool. I suppose I need to be an approved package developer
> even to do local EPEL-8 -targeted builds.
Best way would be to open a bug against the package you'd like to see
the EPEL8 branch for and offer to maintain the branch or contact the
maintainer(s) directly (via package_name-owner@fedoraproject.org alias).
Finally, there's the SciTech SIG, which is barely active but has its own
mailing list and an IRC channel, too:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG?rd=SciTech_special_interest_group
Regards,
Dominik
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