[packman] How to help out the Packman repo?

[Tejas Guruswamy]

Hi,

Thanks for the information, I understand the problems you face. It's
certainly not an easy job!
It was just a bit strange getting silence when offering to help ...

Personally I offered to contribute a package for picard, the MusicBrainz
tagger. I seem to remember it existed on packman (or maybe guru)? a long
time ago...
But I have some packaging experience and am happy helping out wherever
needed. Definitely OBS requests sounds like the way to go for helping
contribute.

I already maintain some packages on build.opensuse.org (KDE4/Community,
SynCE, etc), but some useful packages cannot be built without ffmpeg for
example.

Regards,

Tejas

Pascal Bleser wrote:
> On 11/22/2009 11:43 AM, MasterPatricko wrote:
> > Does this mean you don't want new contributors? Regardless of the state
> > of the specific packages mentioned, surely you would want some fresh
> > help ...
>
> I didn't say that :)
>
> > A few people (including me) have asked how we can help in previous
> > recent messages on the mailing list and have been met with no
> information.
>
> It was quite complicated in the past. Now that we switched to using OBS,
> it has indeed become much easier, as it doesn't require giving full SSH
> access to the build host.
>
> Nevertheless, it is a matter of trust, as anything you'd package would
> land in the Packman repository, which is used by quite a lot of people.
>
> What we've done already for two contributors is to give them an account
> on our OBS, but only to their home: project at first, where they can
> package stuff. We review those packages and then push them to our "main"
> project. Note that only packages from our "main" project are pushed to
> our repository. Stuff built in home: projects doesn't.
>
> We can also make use of OBS' collaboration features that way (submit
> requests -> review the diff -> apply -> push to repo).
>
> I mean, sure, if someone is willing to take away the huge pain in the
> bottom that is building Deluge, be my guest ;)
>
> But we definitely need to think of some incubation time/mechanism before
> we allow people to push packages to our repository. It is way too easy
> to push malware onto several tens of thousands of people with RPM
> packages.
>
> For getmail, there is no way we are going to have it in Packman, as it
> is already packaged and maintained elsewhere (actually, I maintained a
> few getmail versions there). That would simply be duplicating work,
> useless, pointless, and creating confusion.
>
> What would you like to maintain ? (even though using a nickname in your
> emails certainly doesn't improve the trust level ;))
>
> cheers