Offering packages for co-maintenance or adoption

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 15:17 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:27 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 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?
> ... yet some more missing documentation ...
> 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure
> Thanks for link, but I regret having to say so, the procedure outlined
> there is such kind of time-consuming that it is hardly applicable for
> ca. 30 packages.

For something of that scale, we can probably work out something.  E.g.
opening a new bug with a batch of requests, etc.

When you have several to modify, send an email to
cvsadmin-members at fedoraproject.org and we'll see what we can do.

josh