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| 17:00.36 | jduncan | jsmith: Hi! I have a fedora-centric question/observation/plea-for-help if you have 30 seconds. |
| 17:01.04 | jsmith | jduncan: Sure |
| 17:02.41 | jduncan | jsmith: as always you rock. |
| 17:03.37 | jduncan | I've been working on in my 'spare' time a small project to help obfuscate data in sosreports. It has the blessing of the sosreport primary maintainter (bryn reeves) and several RH customers have looked at it with positive results. |
| 17:04.28 | jduncan | I've submitted a package review to fedora to find a sponsor since I don't maintain anything else currently and the response has been... slow. I'm trying to light a fire under this to get it in before the F21 freeze. |
| 17:04.44 | jduncan | my goal is not to sound like a jerk, but to get it done quickly. |
| 17:09.04 | jduncan | jsmith ^^ |
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| 17:10.54 | jsmith | jduncan: There are a couple of different ways to get sponsored |
| 17:11.08 | jsmith | jduncan: I'm not a sponsor, but maybe we can go the "co-maintainer" route |
| 17:11.20 | jduncan | i'm happy to do the dutiful |
| 17:11.25 | jsmith | Awesome... |
| 17:11.35 | jsmith | Gimme a minute to wrap up this work meeting, and I'll come up with a plan |
| 17:11.52 | jduncan | jsmith - at your leisure. i'm on PTO today. :) |
| 17:11.52 | jsmith | ... but plan on me being your "mentor", even if I'm not an official sponsor yet |
| 17:11.58 | jsmith | Lucky you |
| 17:12.10 | jduncan | just got back from a long weekend of camping on the beach |
| 17:13.27 | jduncan | jsmith - fyi the review request is at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104746. The was some great feedback about packaging initially (i was using a raw spec file from python's distutils) but I can't get over that next hurdle. off to grab a bite. |
| 17:14.10 | jsmith | jduncan: I was camping all last week :-) |
| 18:23.34 | jduncan | jsmith - awesome! we tried out a new campground and it wasn't as much fun as we'd hoped. |
| 18:54.00 | jsmith | jduncan: Have you done any informal reviews of other packages, or anything like that? Just looking for other ammunition I can use to convince a packaging sponsor to sponsor you |
| 18:54.29 | jduncan | jsmith - sadly no. anything like that i've done has been on the enterprise side. :( |
| 18:54.54 | jsmith | The other option is to have you be a co-maintainer of one of my packages, and get sponsored that way |
| 18:55.04 | jsmith | I'm not sure any of my packages would be appealing to you, though... |
| 18:55.20 | jduncan | lol. what is out there under your banner? |
| 18:55.29 | jsmith | Mostly drupal packages |
| 18:55.38 | jduncan | eek. lol. |
| 18:55.55 | jduncan | i've been looking through the orphans out there but nothing looked vaguely useful |
| 18:56.04 | jsmith | https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/jsmith/ |
| 18:57.51 | jduncan | jsmith - yeah. not a lot of useful contribution I could make there. |
| 19:04.17 | jduncan | jsmith - i'm a django fanboy. :( |
| 19:04.52 | jsmith | OK, sounds like your best bet is to do some informal reviews of other packages that need reviews |
| 19:05.05 | jsmith | If you can do that, I'll go ask some sponsors if they'll sponsor you |
| 19:05.15 | jduncan | jsmith - OK. is that just the list in bugzilla? |
| 19:05.24 | jsmith | jduncan: Yeah |
| 19:06.15 | jduncan | jsmith - will do. is there some magic number or is this a reputation thing? |
| 19:06.38 | jsmith | Typically it's two or three other packages |
| 19:06.48 | jsmith | Just depends on the sponsor and their comfort level with your ability to package |
| 19:08.09 | jduncan | jsmith - awesome. thanks! |
| 19:10.32 | jsmith | jduncan: After you've done that, reply to the thread where you did your self-introduction and say something along the lines of "I'm still looking to get sponsored -- my package review is at <link>, and I've done a couple of other informal reviews at <link> and <link>" |
| 19:10.38 | jsmith | That'll get the attention of sponsors |
| 19:11.39 | jduncan | jsmith - thanks again. is there a doc on package review best practices? |
| 19:11.48 | jsmith | Absolutely :-) |
| 19:11.58 | jduncan | found and reading |
| 19:12.03 | jsmith | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process |
| 19:12.10 | jsmith | Also, run fedora-review -b <bug number> |
| 19:12.21 | jsmith | That does a lot of the manual labor of checking things |
| 19:12.35 | jsmith | Also, run rpmlint on the srpm, rpm, and spec file |
| 19:12.40 | jsmith | That'll highlight some things as well |
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