I am trying this again. No one has responded to my requests for help here and I get the feeling that either no one cares or no one really cares. It's somewhat depressing to me given the amount of time I've put in to these tools actually trying to save people time and make workflows easier. I just need help maintaining some text files.
The TL;DR is that these data packages need new ownership. It cannot be just me. It also shouldn't fall on the software management team. The data packages are policy, not code. The whole idea here is that policy decisions can be made and implemented independent of the code.
The logical point of ownership to me is the FPC. There can be multiple maintainers of the package, but the point is it should be maintained by policymakers and not me. I am not on the FPC and my maintenance of these data packages is unfortunately reactive, which makes for a less useful tool for everyone.
Can someone please help me here? Upstream projects and developers within Fedora and CentOS Stream make use of rpminspect and submit PRs to the data projects to adjust the packaging policy rules it checks for. That was the intent when I wrote rpminspect. It's meant to be a collaborative tool to ensure we are capturing packaging policies in a format that rpminspect can use.
I am still upstream for rpminspect and have no problems with that. People submit PRs there, which I appreciate. But when a policy changes or a new release is made, the data package needs updating. Without maintenance of the config files, then it leads devs to think "ugh, rpminspect is broken and a total piece of s***, why won't someone fix this?!". No, it's just that no one is taking responsibility for maintaining the config files. You can be that person!
Please help? Anyone.
Thanks,
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Dave Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com>
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