freeworld review and mini manual (for maintainers) to update his packages .

[Sérgio Basto]

On Dom, 2015-11-29 at 19:37 +0100, Brendan Jones wrote:
> On 29/11/15 18:21, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Dom, 2015-11-29 at 12:11 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 2015-11-29 6:03 GMT+01:00 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Sáb, 2015-11-28 at 23:02 +0100, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 2015-11-28 21:32 GMT+01:00 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>:
> > > > > > Need updates :
> > > > > 
> > > > > >   F21:
> > > > > > sonic-visualiser-2.4.1-2.fc21.src.rpm
> > > > > > sonic-visualiser-freeworld-2.1-2.fc21.src.rpm
> > > > > > F22:
> > > > > > sonic-visualiser-2.4.1-2.fc22.src.rpm
> > > > > > sonic-visualiser-freeworld-2.1-2.fc22.src.rpm
> > > > > > F23:
> > > > > > sonic-visualiser-2.4.1-4.fc23.src.rpm
> > > > > > sonic-visualiser-freeworld-2.1-2.fc22.src.rpm
> > > > > Sorry, I don't understand all this.
> > > > > What question are you trying to answear ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Because the question is not:" is the package rebuild for f23"
> > > > > ?
> > > > but
> > > > > instead:
> > > > > Is the package at the correct version in f23 (in a first
> > > > > step).
> > > > > If already at the correct version, can we keep the same build
> > > > > as
> > > > f22
> > > > > or rebuilt it for f23 (the reason for the rebuild is because
> > > > > it's
> > > > c++
> > > > > and/or there is a soname bump for it's dependencies).
> > > > > 
> > > > > if you want me do to something, I need a "list " for free
> > > > > section
> > > > and
> > > > > the list for the nonfree section.
> > > > 
> > > > This is a comprehensive list of all freeworld packages that are
> > > > in
> > > > Rpmfusion and the counter-part in Fedora. I also sent the
> > > > corrects
> > > > cases to show that I reviewed *all* freeworld packages.
> > > > 
> > > > I checked F23 and also F21 and F22 , because in some cases I
> > > > don't
> > > > know
> > > > if it need updates, for example k3b .
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Mini manual (for maintainers) to update his packages :
> > > > 
> > > > For updates F22 and F23 the workflow is as follow:
> > > > - The maintainer which want update his package, clone his
> > > > package
> > > > from
> > > > github [1], modify in his account what wants and when finish
> > > > block
> > > > tracker bug #3820, to sync with git preview.
> > > > - Provenpackager will update to git preview and move to the
> > > > tracker
> > > > bug
> > > > #3821 to build and publish .
> > > > 
> > > > Please open a bug report, don't need to write more than name of
> > > > the
> > > > package and location of modifications, is just to use the
> > > > "blocks"
> > > > of
> > > > bugzilla.
> > > > Of course this is temporary, until infra support acls ...
> > > > 
> > > > I will send a new list of the freeworld packages soon .
> > > > 
> > > > [1] https://github.com/rpmfusion/yourpackage
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > --
> > > > Sérgio M. B.
> > > > 
> > > Sorry this is not the way to go. we use bugzilla for this kind of
> > > request to maintainers.
> > 
> > First I'm exposing the data collected, second explains how we can
> > update it, 3rd analyze what remains wrong, 4th open bug reports
> > against
> > components that are wrong and add "the" mini manual (for
> > maintainers) ,
> > 5th if someone want to fix it but is not the package maintainer,
> > reports in same bug the patch or solutions, 6th if maintainer lacks
> > of
> > response or the patch is trivial, provenpackage can commit it and
> > add
> > the number of the bug report on the changelog of spec .
> > 
> > I sending new list of "all" freeworld packages , also we have to
> > analyze multilibs in some packages , so it is (again) the
> > comprehensive
> > list but improved and corrected .
> > About split nonfree , we only have sox-plugins-nonfree and xmms2-
> > nonfree but both also they have a free part.
> > 
> > 
> > For complete the report, we have:
> > 
> > - libtunepimp-extras-freeworld-0.5.3-13.fc22.src.rpm, libtunepimp
> > is
> > retired in rawhide (f24) [1]
> > 
> > - qtractor-freeworld-0.5.7-1.fc19.src.rpm have already been kicked
> > out
> > :) but is active in Fedora [2].
> > 
> My bad, I was thinking of retiring this in rpmfusion in any case. 
> However I have still been keeping the (no mp3) patch up to date in 
> Fedora. Haven't bumped this in quite a while.

You have the package source here [3], the whole purpose of this is
bring back the maintainers and update the packages for GA.

[3] https://github.com/rpmfusion/qtractor-freeworld/

Thanks,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.