Bug 1062668

Summary:	Review Request: xls2csv-1.07 is available
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Fabio Alessandro Locati <fale>
Component:	xls2csv	Assignee:	Pavel Alexeev <pahan>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Fabio Alessandro Locati 2014-02-07 16:27:10 UTC

Git patch URL: http://data.fabiolocati.com/fedora/xls2csv/xls2csv-move_to_v_1-07.patch
Spec URL: http://data.fabiolocati.com/fedora/xls2csv/xls2csv.spec
SRPM URL: http://data.fabiolocati.com/fedora/xls2csv/xls2csv-1.07-0.fc20.src.rpm
Koji build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6504596

Change description: Updated from 1.06 to 1.07 due to an update in upstream source

Fedora Account System Username: fale

This is my first Fedora Package (I've done a lot of packages on Ubuntu) and I'm looking for a sponsor.

Comment 1 Christopher Meng 2014-02-08 06:21:01 UTC

I'm sorry, but we don't accept users package the existing packages.

Comment 2 Pavel Alexeev 2014-02-08 16:44:01 UTC

Hello.

Help always appropriated.
But you do not sponsored to be package maintainer, so unfortunately you can't co-maintain it. To became package maintainer in Fedora you should follow process [1].
Then you could request acls for existing packages too.

Meantime I have update package: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6507113

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

Comment 3 Fabio Alessandro Locati 2014-02-09 08:16:34 UTC

Hi.

I really believe in Fedora and I really hope to be able to help Fedora improving itself.
I noticed the following things that I think should be addressed to improve the project:

1. You (Hubbitus) provide a link that explains a way to become package managers, affirming is the only way. In the page [0] is possible to find what seems to be a different way to get sponsored. Probably one of the two pages is wrong or not clear (and probably is the one I've seen) and I think it should be fixed. Having opposite information (or interpretation) on some procedures can create more confusion. I would point out that this is not my case at the moment, since I already opened bug #1062942 asking the review of the package "csv" (never been in Fedora).

2. I noticed that you (Hubbitus) committed something different from the patch I sent you and therefore my effort did not show up in GIT. I would like to point out that GIT has special feature for this kind of situation (git commit --author) [1] to be able to give credit to the contributors. Does Fedora has a policy about this? Could be a good thing having a policy about this like Drupal [2] and many other big projects? 

I hope these things will make the project better.


[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group#Become_a_co-maintainer
[1] http://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit
[2] https://drupal.org/node/1146430

Comment 4 Pavel Alexeev 2014-02-09 09:28:25 UTC

I do not have Sponsor rights to sponsor you. You may try find someone else.

And off course I just bump version and update package referring to that issue number as request. I found nothing special in you git "patch" except incorrect 0 release for stable package. I miss something?