Hey Sam,
This seems odd to me… you can follow up with the Fedora Infrastructure
team to help get an answer to this. You can either contact them on
freenode IRC in #fedora-admin…
If you don't get a quick answer in #fedora-admin, try the mailing list
so that way you won't have to be online to get a reply back. Let us know
if you're able to get it figured out.
On 08/01/2017 06:53 PM, Sam Fowler wrote:
Thanks for all the info, very helpful.
I just tried creating an account with the Fedora Account System (FAS)
but was prompted with a message saying my email address has been
blacklisted. Is there way I can workaround this? I'd ideally like to use
my regular email address (samfowler(a)fastmail.com).
Thanks again,
Sam
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017, at 21:07, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> (Fedora join ML CCed)
>
> On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 23:09 +1000, Sam Fowler wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> Welcome to Fedora!
>
>>
>> I am interested in getting the python package, PyKCS11, added into
>> the
>> Fedora repos (specifically a python3 version).
>>
>>
https://github.com/LudovicRousseau/PyKCS11
>>
>> I have read the guide on becoming a fedora package maintainer but am
>> I
>> unsure if I am suited to the role. I was wondering if there's
>> precedent
>> for asking existing fedora package maintainers to become maintainers
>> for
>> new packages.
>
> There's a wishlist here where one can add interesting packages, and if
> a maintainer is interested, they'd pick it up:
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist?rd=PackageMai...
>
> In general, though, people maintain packages that they use themselves.
> That way, they have a vested interest in keeping their packages up to
> date, and functional in general.
>
>>
>> The package in question, PyKCS11, has equivalent packages already
>> available via pip and in Ubuntu and Debian. I was hoping that given
>> the
>> relative maturity of the upstream package, it would be a straight
>> forward process to get the package added into fedora.
>
> Yea - python software is usually relatively simpler to package up.
>
>>
>> The reason for my hesitation in becoming a fedora package maintainer
>> is
>> that I am a junior developer with no history of open source
>> contribution
>> (yet!).
>
> Haha - well here's the opportunity ;)
>
>> I am not affiliated with the upstream maintainer, Ludovic
>> Rousseau, but I have contacted him to see if he would be able to add
>> the
>> package into Fedora. He declined but said that he did not have a
>> problem
>> with someone else doing it.
>
> Yea - it's hard for upstreams to maintain the source code and also keep
> packages in various downstream distributions up to date. This is where
> package maintainers come in:
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects
>
>>
>> I am happy to support the initial process of submitting this new
>> package. It is relatively trivial to build and install rpms from the
>> github repo (python setup.py bdist_rpm), and I have been testing the
>> use
>> of these rpms myself for sometime now.
>>
>> Any advice at all would be helpful.
>
> As you've read on the wiki I'm sure, the initial packaging and review
> is only one part of the maintenance process. It's keeping the software
> up to date, fixing bugs or reporting them upstream, and making sure the
> software is functional in general that's the real task - i.e., the long
> term maintenance.
>
> I would suggest just going ahead and submitting the package for review
> yourself. This is another helpful wiki page that you must've come
> across:
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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