Sorry, right, I'm trying to become a packager. Funny enough, I use IRC
every day; what room should I join (I'm assuming Freenode).
On 9 May 2017, at 14:45, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "RO" == Ron Olson <tachoknight(a)gmail.com>
writes:
>
> RO> I did request access but the page gave me a catch-22 of needing to
> RO> be in a particular group to continue; it was awhile ago at the end
> RO> of last year and I kind of dropped it, but since I've been playing
> RO> more Nethack on my Fedora 25 laptop, it rekindled my interest in
> RO> being the maintainer.
>
> I guess what you're trying to say is that you're not a packager. That
> wasn't mentioned anywhere as far as I can see. The maintainer of any
> package can request that you be made a packager so that you can assist
> them with the package, and I'm sure that fale would have done that if
> you had mentioned that you needed such.
>
> I can also sponsor you into the packager group as can several other
> folks. That's basically just a promise to mentor you and help with
> questions you may have. For me it would be vastly preferable if you
> were on IRC because that's a low effort way to communicate, versus
> email
> which for me often piles up and gets missed.
>
> RO> Sorry if I'm doing this wrong; the maintainer packages are pretty
> RO> involved and I'm trying to navigate through this; there's no 'dnf
> -y
> RO> install maintainer' as far as I can tell. :)
>
> Well, there's fedora-packager, but of course it only gets you the
> tools,
> not the knowledge. We have a bunch of documentation about becoming a
> packager; I'm not sure what you've read at this point.
>
> I looked at the nethack package and while it's a bit archaic it's not
> particularly complicated. I personally would do some cleanup
> simplifications which might make it a bit easier to read and maintain
> but it's not a difficult package by any means. (The use of X11 core
> fonts does scare me, though; that's something most of us would try to
> forget.)
>
> Of course I'm assuming that 3.6 hasn't become drastically more
> complicated.
>
> - J<