On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:34 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 16.8.2018 13:38, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:34 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
>>
>> f-r currently fails to build (#1603956), it has a bunch of bugs open [1]
>> and many issues and unhandled pull requests in the upstream repo [2, 3].
>> The last upstream commit was 2 years ago.
>>
>> f-r has is annoyingly outdated and gives often outright bad advice
>> (for example about BR:gcc or BR:g++). The situation would be significantly
>> improved if the outstanding PRs were merged.
>>
>> f-r is also python2-only now, which will be a problem soon since
>> support for python2 is waning [4].
>>
>> Is there any hope of upstream and downstream activity on f-r?
>
> If noboby else wants to volunteer, I can look into starting to bring
> fedora-review up to speed again.
> We talked about getting involved in the project more directly in a
> past FPC meeting - which should also lead to more up-to-date Packaging
> Guidelines checks.
Put me in as well. I have no idea how much time would I have, but I can
at least help with code reviews.
I can try to help where I can, too.
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