Wiki Pages that need love

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Oct 14 17:21:53 UTC 2008


On 14.10.2008 19:02, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
> <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>> On 14.10.2008 17:49, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:51:33PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>> database all the maintainers that maintain at least one EL branch. I'll
>>>> mail Toshio to ask whether it is possible. And the text on this page
>>>> should certainly be shortened.
>>> Toshio kindly answered me. Currently there is no url that can be used
>>> for that, but he did a simple script to get that information.
>>>
>>> The script is here:
>>> http://toshio.fedorapeople.org/pkgdb/id_to_owner.py
>>>
>>> The result is here:
>>> http://toshio.fedorapeople.org/pkgdb/epel-owner.txt
>> /me takes a quick look.
>>
>> The list contains corsepiu, which according to
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatusNo
>> doesn't want to be a EPEL Contributer and according to
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugzilla?tg_format=plain
>> is not maintaining any packages in EPEL directly. Maybe he's co-maintainer
>> somewhere to make sure he sees commits, but the script did not catch that.
>>
>> And note, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatusNo IMHO
>> definitely should stay to give people a chance to say "Please don't bug me
>> with EPEL at all (not even mails asking if I want to maintain the package)"
>> The page IMHO best stays separately and is not merged into
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatus, as that makes using
>> the page contents in scripts a lot easier.
>>
> 
> I think it would be better to see if we can get this into FAS and have
> a link into FAS to show that datapoint.

Sure. That was the plan from the start, but it got forgotten and for now 
the page did the trick quite well afaics. So it IMHO should stay until 
we have something better.

>  Having a page that people may or may not know about 

That can happen in FAS as well.

 > [...]

CU
knurd




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