Offering packages for co-maintenance or adoption

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed May 16 12:27:51 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:22 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 20:27 +1200, Nigel Jones wrote:
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> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > due to the increased work-load being imposed on maintainers, I not any
> > > longer feel able to maintain the following packages in reasonable
> > > manners. 
> > > 
> > > To be able to concentrate my work-load better on the subset of packages
> > > I am most interested in, I am offering the following packages I have
> > > been maintaining in Fedora in recent years for co-maintainership or
> > > adoption:
> > > 
> > > cvsutils
> > I wouldn't mind this one, but I'll pass on the others
> 
> Fine. I would have added you as co-maintainer of cvsutils in owners.list
> but apparently the procedures outlined on
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/OrphanedPackages?action=show&redirect=Extras%2FOrphanedPackages
> also do not apply anymore:
> 
> $ cvs commit -m 'Add Nigel Jones as comaintainer of cvsutils.' owners.list
> Enter passphrase for key '/users/corsepiu/.ssh/id_dsa': 
> **** Access allowed: corsepiu is in ACL for /cvs/pkgs/owners.
> Checking in owners.list;
> /cvs/extras/owners/owners.list,v  <--  owners.list
> new revision: 1.2882; previous revision: 1.2881
> cvs [commit aborted]: could not open lock file
> `/cvs/extras/owners/,owners.list,': Permission denied
> 
> Which form did I miss to fill out, now?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure

josh




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