Questions about package maintenance

[kog13]

I’ve been starting to do more with the build service lately, and I have a couple questions:

1. The jedit package for a while now has been woefully out of date, so I finally decided to update it. I branched the package from openSUSE 12.1 Update, made the updates and got it to build successfully, but I don’t know how to submit my changes. osc submitrequest doesn’t work because it’s an Update project (osc suggests “using the maintenance workflow” instead), so I’m not sure how to go about this.

2. Related to the first question, but something I’d like to try and expand on, is how do I request to become a package’s maintainer? I’m on the jedit development team and would like to become an official maintainer for the openSUSE package, but I can’t seem to find any way to submit that type of request. I’d also like to extend this to requesting co-maintainership for other packages, notably the haskell platform, which is also out-of-date compared to other distros.

Any help would be great.

[malcolmlewis]

@kog13

I’ve been starting to do more with the build service lately, and I have
a couple questions:

1. The jedit package for a while now has been woefully out of date, so
   I finally decided to update it. I branched the package from openSUSE
   12.1 Update, made the updates and got it to build successfully, but I
   don’t know how to submit my changes. osc submitrequest doesn’t work
   because it’s an Update project (osc suggests “using the maintenance
   workflow” instead), so I’m not sure how to go about this.

2. Related to the first question, but something I’d like to try and
   expand on, is how do I request to become a package’s maintainer? I’m on
   the jedit development team and would like to become an official
   maintainer for the openSUSE package, but I can’t seem to find any way to
   submit that type of request. I’d also like to extend this to requesting
   co-maintainership for other packages, notably the haskell platform,
   which is also out-of-date compared to other distros.

Any help would be great.

Hi
You need to push it to Update:Test are you using osc?

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[malcolmlewis]

@malcolmlewis

@kog13

I’ve been starting to do more with the build service lately, and I have
a couple questions:

1. The jedit package for a while now has been woefully out of date, so
   I finally decided to update it. I branched the package from openSUSE
   12.1 Update, made the updates and got it to build successfully, but I
   don’t know how to submit my changes. osc submitrequest doesn’t work
   because it’s an Update project (osc suggests “using the maintenance
   workflow” instead), so I’m not sure how to go about this.

2. Related to the first question, but something I’d like to try and
   expand on, is how do I request to become a package’s maintainer? I’m on
   the jedit development team and would like to become an official
   maintainer for the openSUSE package, but I can’t seem to find any way to
   submit that type of request. I’d also like to extend this to requesting
   co-maintainership for other packages, notably the haskell platform,
   which is also out-of-date compared to other distros.

Any help would be great.

Hi
You need to push it to Update:Test are you using osc?

Hmmm, looks like there workflow is changing, have a read of this thread;
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2012-03/msg00020.html

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[kog13]

Yeah, I’m using osc.

Submitting it to openSUSE:12.1:Update:Test looks like it worked, but I’m still not sure how to request package maintainership. Is there a formal avenue for that, or should I just try contacting the existing maintainer?

[malcolmlewis]

@kog13

Yeah, I’m using osc.

Submitting it to openSUSE:12.1:Update:Test looks like it worked, but
I’m still not sure how to request package maintainership. Is there a
formal avenue for that, or should I just try contacting the existing
maintainer?

Hi
Use osc

osc requestmaintainership PROJECT PACKAGE -m "your message text here"

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[kog13]

****, osc really does have everything, doesn’t it?

Thanks. =)

[malcolmlewis]

@kog13

****, osc really does have everything, doesn’t it?

Thanks. =)

Hi
You should check out the collab plugin, even easier to update
packages…

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[ptrommler]

@kog13

2. Related to the first question, but something I’d like to try and expand on, is how do I request to become a package’s maintainer? I’m on the jedit development team and would like to become an official maintainer for the openSUSE package, but I can’t seem to find any way to submit that type of request. I’d also like to extend this to requesting co-maintainership for other packages, notably the haskell platform, which is also out-of-date compared to other distros.

Check out devel:languages:haskell. It has the latest Haskell Platform 2011.4 packages and a few others. In devel:langages:haskell:next you will find ghc 7.4 and later versions of a few other packages.

Herbert and I are maintaining both projects and we are always looking for helping hands. Just contact us through build service. See Malcom’s reply #5 above on how to do that.

Cheers, Peter