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#7124 Add "package-maintainers@fedoraproject.org" aliases
Closed: Fixed Opened by tibbs.

Closed: Fixed
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  • Describe what you need us to do:

In recent years Fedora has tried to emphasize that packages are "owned" by the project as a whole and maintained by individuals. But if you want to email the maintainers, you use "packagename-owner@fedoraproject.org" which kind of goes backwards.

I believe this is mostly trivial and I will attach a patch in a bit. The current aliases file is generated by FAS, but it isn't hard to use that in order to generate one that uses -maintainers instead of -owner. I guess it's a hack but it is expedient. I can look into the fasclient code to do it differently if this isn't acceptable.

  • When do you need this? (YYYY/MM/DD)

It isn't particularly urgent.

  • When is this no longer needed or useful? (YYYY/MM/DD)

Should be useful forever unless we decide to change the messaging again.

  • If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact?

Slightly contradictory messaging.

I was wrong; the file isn't generated by FAS, it's generated by the owner-email-from-pagure.py script. Here's a patch; I stuck with my original method but if you'd rather I fix owner-email-from-pagure or use some other approach, please let me know.

0001-Add-a-maintainers-alias-file.patch

Edit: The package-owner-aliases script seems a bit odd to me. It sets a variable and then hardcodes the value later, and it has this odd construction which I don't really understand: cp $output $dest; chmod +r $output; mv $output $dest. I just aped what it does in case there's a good reason that I'm just missing.
Edited by tibbs

Thanks for the patch!

Should be live now.

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Metadata Update from @kevin:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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