Hi,
I would like to know:
1. If there is a comprehensive contact list of Fedora Packagers who are allowed to sponsor packages? Is the list available somewhere that new joinees can use, and contact Fedora packagers? or is it always that whenever a Sponsor looks into FE-NEEDSPONSOR review requests in bugzilla, the package is reviewed?
2. Is there a queue of review requests that is maintained, say, for example a review-request that has not been reviewed for a month, should be given first priority or is there any criteria as such? or is it left to the Packagers?
3. If there is a SIG, and exists a group of Packagers who can sponsor a package within the SIG, how do they coordinate as to which packages need to be reviewed first, or in what order?
Appreciate any inputs in this regard,
Thanks!
SK
"SK" == Shakthi Kannan shakthimaan@gmail.com writes:
SK> 1. If there is a comprehensive contact list of Fedora Packagers who SK> are allowed to sponsor packages?
The account system knows. Just look for the "packager" group, type "sponsor".
SK> Is there a queue of review requests that is maintained, say, for SK> example a review-request that has not been reviewed for a month, SK> should be given first priority or is there any criteria as such? or SK> is it left to the Packagers?
There's no policy for giving priority. The review queue is at http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/NEW.html
SK> 3. If there is a SIG, and exists a group of Packagers who can SK> sponsor a package within the SIG, how do they coordinate as to which SK> packages need to be reviewed first, or in what order?
I would suppose they would communicate with each other in some fashion. That kind of thing isn't going to be regulated by any policy.
- J<
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 21:21 +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know:
This message is off-topic to this list. Redirecting discussion to fedora-devel-list@redhat.com.
- If there is a comprehensive contact list of Fedora Packagers who
are allowed to sponsor packages? Is the list available somewhere that new joinees can use, and contact Fedora packagers? or is it always that whenever a Sponsor looks into FE-NEEDSPONSOR review requests in bugzilla, the package is reviewed?
Yes, you can look in FAS who have sponsor status in the Packager group. Normally sponsors look for review requests needing sponsors, but if you've been waiting for very long you can mail fedora-devel-list and ask for someone to have a look at your package.
- Is there a queue of review requests that is maintained, say, for
example a review-request that has not been reviewed for a month, should be given first priority or is there any criteria as such? or is it left to the Packagers?
Not especially, but the review bugs have bug numbers that are in increasing order in time, so older reviews have smaller numbers. Picking what to review is up to the packager.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Shakthi Kannan shakthimaan@gmail.com wrote:
- If there is a comprehensive contact list of Fedora Packagers who
are allowed to sponsor packages? Is the list available somewhere that new joinees can use, and contact Fedora packagers? or is it always that whenever a Sponsor looks into FE-NEEDSPONSOR review requests in bugzilla, the package is reviewed?
Any member of the packager group may review a package for an existing packager. They also may (and are encouraged to) do informal reviews of packages from non-sponsored packagers.
The list of existing sponsors may be found at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/group/members/packager/*/sponsor
- Is there a queue of review requests that is maintained, say, for
example a review-request that has not been reviewed for a month, should be given first priority or is there any criteria as such? or is it left to the Packagers?
Besides the normal bugzilla search? I don't think there's such a queue. There's a report that comes out every so often on package review stats, but no queue as such.
- If there is a SIG, and exists a group of Packagers who can sponsor
a package within the SIG, how do they coordinate as to which packages need to be reviewed first, or in what order?
They do this within their own control - maybe on their mailing list, maybe on a wiki page, etc. There is no "one way" that a SIG has to operate.
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