Hi team! I and some others are working on a set of packages bringing support for various mildly cursed ARM SoCs and peripherals that are not yet suitable for support in Fedora proper (though we aim to change that where practical). We'd like to provide some COPR repos for kernels and DKMS drivers, custom mesa builds etc. for people to use, and would like to do this under a group to simplify maintenance and enable others to contribute more easily.
Could you create a COPR/tracking group named one of the following? I'm not sure what the policy is on group naming, if none of the below are acceptable please feel free to choose whatever name you feel is appropriate.
cursed-socs
haunted-soc
esoteric-soc
exotic-soc
very-unsupported
violently-unsupported
phytium-fans
phytium-socs
Any of the above with -sig attached or similar would be fine too.
-sig
Of course, if you feel this isn't an appropriate use of COPR groups feel free to close this and we'll happily keep using personal repos :sweat_smile:
Thanks!
No huge rush but soon would be appreciated :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Metadata Update from @zlopez: - Issue priority set to: Waiting on Assignee (was: Needs Review) - Issue tagged with: low-trouble, medium-gain, ops
I don't think there is any issue with exotic-soc group name, so I would go with that.
And following question, who should be sponsor of the group?
exotic-soc-sig might be more in keeping with the general rules? though I believe sig isn't required anymore.
exotic-soc-sig
sig
For the meantime it would just be myself and @mothenjoyer69 though we intend on bringing more people in as they express interest; this is a rather niche thing. We don't have any companies behind us at the moment though there are some developers with access to vendor documentation who are supporting in a personal capacity.
As an aside, it may worth using a name that makes it obvious this is not anything officially supported by any given vendor/org. Goal is to have a group that we (and other community members who are interested) can keep various COPR projects for kernel packages, modifications to mesa, etc. under so it's easier to find and simpler to maintain as a group, rather than being scattered across a number of disjoint personal accounts.
Personally I'm a fan of rather tongue-in-cheek names like violently-unsupported but something like exotic-soc-community might be more appropriate. That or I'm overthinking this :sweat_smile:
exotic-soc-community
That wouldn't be a problem, Fedora is a community project, so the groups here are by default unofficial. You can add something to description of the group if you want.
Metadata Update from @zlopez: - Issue assigned to zlopez
Fair point! Thanks for the clarification. exotic-soc sounds good to me then :smile:
The group is now in place https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/group/exotic-soc/ with you and @mothenjoyer69 as sponsors.
Feel free to reopen the ticket if something is missing.
Metadata Update from @zlopez: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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