On 03/16/2017 08:54 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> wrote:
On 03/15/2017 02:01 AM, Oliver Kurz wrote:
On Tuesday, 14 March 2017 14:55:48 CET cagsm wrote:
Quick inquiry into where to ask or demand for new packages or versions to be included into 42.3? On this list? Example: please upgrade shorewall package (shorewall.net) at least to the one from tumbleweed 5.0.x or better to current stable releases 5.1.x […]
anyone can create an account on build.opensuse.org and get involved. Also in general anyone can do a "submit request" which in this case would be the update from openSUSE:Factory to openSUSE:Leap:42.3 but it might be beneficial to get in contact with the maintainer of the package. Maybe there is a good reason why there has been no update already submitted. Maybe the maintainer is thankful for your reminder.
Anyone can, but not anyone should, you should only do that if A) You are willing to provide security / maintenance updates in Leap 42.3 as required or B) you have spoken to someone else ie the maintainer and they are happy to do this for you. Either way you should speak to the maintainer first if you are not the maintainer.
Simon,
Correct me if I'm wrong and this is my understanding, and may not have any bearing on reality. :)
===== There is a LeapBot scanning factory and somehow making autonomous (or rule-based) decisions to send SRs from factory to Leap 42.3.
The maintainers get a review SR notice and it is in their queue.
The maintainer has to take an active step of saying OK (or similar) to the SR before it accepted into Leap 42.3
Thus maintainers of both packages and Leap 42.3 have an established workflow.
===== So you're saying that while the LeapBot can send SRs without talking to the maintainers, us humans have to first talk to the maintainer, then initiate the SR.
First time I recall being relegated to a status lower than a bot. :(
Greg
Depending on who the human is or maybe even for all humans, I don't remember how the bot works, the maintainer may not necessarily be required to review the submission if say I push one of your packages and have maintainership rights in the devel repo. In that case someone in the release team will still be required to review but maybe not the maintainer. Where as LeapBot "asks" by creating a SR that the maintainer needs to review and nothing will happen unless they say yes. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B