Dealing with new approved packages for rpmfusion

[Sérgio Basto]

On Qua, 2015-12-30 at 11:53 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 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.

id=4 also have new packages that have recently been approved  since we
don't have CVS-admin requests since F20 , we haven't block 33 (I'm
deducting) 

> > > 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.

Sorry for my limited English, I agree with you, but it depends on the
availability of kwizart.
So I'm trying do all possible work, for kwizart just had to add the
packages.


>  > 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%20Re
> > views&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.

yes

> Regards,
> 
> Hans
-- 
Sérgio M. B.