PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure
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Introduction
The list of pending CVS requests is kept in Bugzilla.
Requests that require CVS administrators approval may be requested through the fedora-cvs flag in Bugzilla tickets as described on this page. To accomplish the tasks described here, you need to be a member of the fedorabugs group.
Changing the fedora-cvs flag to "?" in a Bugzilla report means CVS admin attention is needed. They will read your Bugzilla ticket and attempt to take care of your request. In order to make the job faster and easier for the CVS admins, please follow the guidelines on this page in order to format your request in a standard way with all required information.
New Packages
After your package is approved by the Package Review Process, you may request for a CVS module to be created. Please copy this template into your Bugzilla comment, and set fedora-cvs flag to ?. If you are newly sponsored member of the Fedora CVS access group you might have to wait a day or two before you will get the permission to set the flag in Bugzilla as the synch is done manually about once a day. After your request is granted, please wait for the next CVS sync which occurs every 30 minutes. At that point, your package checkout will contain empty directories for each distro branch. Simply add your files to these directories, checkin, tag and build.
Requests for new F-(X-2) packages when F-X goes gold will not be accepted. For example, when Fedora 10 is released, no new package requests for Fedora 8 will be accepted.
user Template:
New Package CVS Request ======================= Package Name: Short Description: Owners: Branches: InitialCC:
Example:
New Package CVS Request ======================= Package Name: pkgname Short Description: summary of package Owners: foo bar Branches: F-9 F-10 InitialCC: baz
- Valid branch names currently used for Fedora: F-9 F-10 EL-4 EL-5 OLPC-2 OLPC-3. The devel branch is implicit and always created, so you need not list it.
- Owners must be one or more FAS usernames. If you have multiple owners, add secondary owners with a space separated list.
- InitialCC contain FAS usernames that receive mail pertaining to this package, but are not necessarily owners. More than one can be listed separated by spaces.
Package Change Requests for existing packages
To request:
- additional branches for an existing package
- other special cvs requests, changes to the description, etc
please use the existing review ticket for requests, even though it may well be CLOSED (please do not reopen it). If a review ticket does not exist or you really cannot find it, then creating a new bug is acceptable.
You can search for the review with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=Package+Review&short_desc_type=substring&short_desc=%s replacing %s with the package name.
Please check with the package owner first before requesting a new branch, if you are not the owner.
Note that changes of ownership and addition and removal comainainers and branch owners can now all be done directly in the FAS Package Database interface.
Please use the following template to state clearly exactly what you want and why it is justified in your Bugzilla comment. Then set the fedora-cvs flag to ?. Note that there is no need to reopen the bug if it is closed; the CVS administrators only query on the state of the fedora-cvs flag, and it takes extra time for the CVS administrators to look up the original resolution of the bug so that it can be re-closed properly.
Template:
Package Change Request ====================== Package Name: New Branches: Owners: [Updated Description: ] [add any required explanatory text here]
The Package Name field is mandatory, and it is recommended to list the Owners. Please only include other fields which need to be changed or updated. In the Owners field list the branch owner and any comaintainers.
Example, to add EPEL branches:
Package Change Request ====================== Package Name: pkgname New Branches: EL-4 EL-5 Owners: bar foo
If you need other special changes done which cannot be handled by the template fields, like renaming of a package, or complete removal of a package or branch due to rare circumstances, please state your desire and justification below the template in your Bugzilla comment.
Note for current packages that have been renamed upstream, a new package needs to be created for the new package: please make a New Package CVS Request.
This is an interim procedure that should be automated in the future with the Infrastructure/PackageDatabase project. Please inquire with the Infrastructure team if you are interested in helping.
