Dealing with new approved packages for rpmfusion

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 30-12-15 05:01, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> Hello,
> On Ter, 2015-12-29 at 13:12 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Looking at:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33
>
> you have confused me, 33 is RF_CVSsync

Right, so 33 is the packages for which a CVS admin request was
done as described here:

http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors#Your_package_gets_approved

  and 4 is RF_ACCEPT (accept means
> approved ) so [1] have more package already approved
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4

4 is for all packages which got approved in the history of
rpmfusion, not just those which have a pending CVS-admin
request for creating the pkg in CVS / bugzilla.

>> There are quite a few new packages which are waiting
>> to have CVS / git repos created for them and for them
>> to be imported / added to the repos.
>>
>> I know that with the new infra this process is currently
>> on hold, but we are getting quite a big backlog of these,
>> and I'm afraid that not dealing with these in a timely
>> manner will scare of new contributors. So I wonder if
>> it would be possible to have a temporary process to
>> be able to process these while we're migrating to the
>> new infra ?
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>
> This work of review packages and approve it , can be used by anyone so
> is not waste of time (IMHO).

I'm not saying it is  =a waste of time, otherwise I would not
be participating in this myself :)  What I'm saying is that
it would be good to unfreeze the CVS admin process, and actually
add new pkgs, getting a pkg through review and then not having it
show up the repo is just going to frustrate (new) contributors,
and is not going to motivate them to contribute more, were as
actually having the pkg show up in the repo will motivate
people.

 > And the more organized we are, less work
> we have. So can we clean a bit [1] (all review requests) ?
>
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/buglist.cgi?product=Package%20Reviews&component=Review%20Request&resolution=---&list_id=8635

I think that going over this list, and asking for a status update
on all of them, maybe with a suggestion to do review swap would
be good to do. But IMHO we should first unfreeze then CVS-admin
process. Poking people to get to work on these only to have
things grind to a halt as soon as the review passes is not helpful.

Regards,

Hans