[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Fwd: #1009709 - RFS: nginx/1.18.0-2 [RC] -- small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server
Thomas Ward
teward at ubuntu.com
Fri Apr 15 01:43:44 BST 2022
Also, can you regrant me maintainer access? I changed my username from
teward-guest on Salsa to teward, and it seems to have dropped my
permissions again...
Thomas
On 4/14/22 20:34, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
> Ondrej,
>
> Can you do me a favor and review the 1.18.0-9 tag which contains the
> merge for the FTBFS fix, the security patch for the auth-pam module,
> and some changes to Copyright (since i'm contributing to the
> packaging, my copyright year needed updated) and adds me to Uploaders?
>
> Secondly, if there are no issues with that, can you push this into
> ftp-master and provide a dak command that gives me upload access? It
> seems that even though I'm on the maintainers list in Salsa, there's
> pushback, so if you can back the upload that'd solve many of the problems.
>
> My current goal with 1.18.0-9 now that i was added as maintainer in
> Salsa is to get it out and deployed so Testing has a version that
> works again. After that's in Testing, I will be pushing to get us
> onto 1.20.x because that's the latest stable and far newer than what
> we have now (nearly 2.5 years old now) and fixes some of the other
> concerns about needing a version bump, etc.
>
> Given that we are now facing NGINX Not In Testing, and are facing a
> preliminary full freeze date of Any Day Now, it'd be better to get
> this uploaded sooner than later so we have it in testing should a
> Debian release happen sooner than later (there were comments that a
> release might be coming and emails to devel announce in March that
> suggested a full freeze was coming but was not yet announced with a
> TBD date, so expediency is warranted here).
>
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: #1009709 - RFS: nginx/1.18.0-2 [RC] -- small, powerful,
> scalable web/proxy server
> Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:26:42 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-mentors at lists.debian.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:26:23 -0400
> From: Thomas Ward <teward at ubuntu.com>
> To: M. Zhou <lumin at debian.org>, debian-mentors at lists.debian.org
>
>
>
> I sent such requests literally when they gave me access, and it seems
> there may only be one or two individuals driving the package - of
> which it's impossibly hard to get one of them to even respond. Last
> response I had from Ondrej on the uploaders and team was "Join the
> maintainers team" on Salsa, which I did and they granted me access -
> https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx has the recent work which
> has made the team "no longer inactive after a three week break". If
> this is not enough to point at me having maintainer access to the VCS
> for releasing the packages, then maybe Debian should do some research
> before outright rejecting.
>
> I'm happy to wait for one of their people to give me dak access or
> sponsor the upload, however keep in mind that after 3 weeks with no
> activity AND a merge request that took two weeks to get that would fix
> the FTBFS that broke NGINX in Testing to begin with, we're staring at
> a "Package is not fit for testing" problem currently that is nearly a
> month old and hasn't been fixed yet. (However, given that I've been
> making the commits on the Salsa repo that the packaging directly comes
> from, I'm not sure if you mean something other than the NGINX Team on
> Salsa when you refer to "maintainers" - I have 'Maintainer' access on
> the Salsa repo itself that the packaging comes from)
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On 4/14/22 20:13, M. Zhou wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> Thank you for the updates. Is this coordinated with the nginx
>> maintainers?
>> Actually it is hard for any mentor outside that team to sponsor the
>> upload.
>> And it seems there is no RC bug for nginx right now?
>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nginx
>>
>> BTW, you may want to first ask the nginx team and debian developers who
>> gave you salsa maintainer access for the DM access, instead of other
>> debian
>> developers from mentors list.
>> Because a portion of the mentors have no experience with you
>> (including me),
>> and hence we cannot make a decision on whether to grant you with DM
>> access.
>> Once given without ack from original nginx maintainers, it still feels
>> like package hijacking.
>>
>> According to nginx upload history, this will be the first time of your
>> upload... so it is indeed uneasy for an outsider (in terms of nginx)
>> to help.
>>
>> On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 17:02 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
>>> Debian Mentors,
>>>
>>> Would a mentor be willing to upload this sooner than later as it fixes
>>> some FTBFS / RC bugs? It'd be nice if said sponsor can also push a dak
>>> command to ftp-master so I don't have to go via Mentors to upload nginx
>>> releases (I've already been granted DM access for my packages, and am
>>> now a maintainer in the Salsa repository for NGINX and should probably
>>> have upload privs as well).
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:54:10 -0400 Thomas Ward <teward at ubuntu.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Package: sponsorship-requests
>>> > Severity: important
>>> >
>>> > Dear mentors,
>>> >
>>> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nginx":
>>> >
>>> > * Package name : nginx
>>> > Version : 1.18.0-9
>>> > Upstream Author : Igor Sysoev
>>> > * URL : https://nginx.org
>>> > * License : BSD-4-clause, Expat, BSD-2-clause, BSD-3-clause
>>> > * Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx
>>> > Section : httpd
>>> >
>>> > The source builds the following binary packages:
>>> >
>>> > nginx - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server
>>> > nginx-doc - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server -
>>> documentation
>>> > nginx-common - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server - common
>>> files
>>> > nginx-core - nginx web/proxy server (standard version)
>>> > nginx-full - nginx web/proxy server (standard version with 3rd
>>> parties)
>>> > nginx-light - nginx web/proxy server (basic version)
>>> > nginx-extras - nginx web/proxy server (extended version)
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-geoip - GeoIP HTTP module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-geoip2 - GeoIP2 HTTP module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-image-filter - HTTP image filter module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter - XSLT Transformation module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-mail - Mail module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-stream - Stream module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-stream-geoip - GeoIP Stream module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-stream-geoip2 - GeoIP2 Stream module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-perl - Perl module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam - PAM authentication module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-lua - Lua module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-ndk - Nginx Development Kit module
>>> > libnginx-mod-nchan - Fast, flexible pub/sub server for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-echo - Bring echo and more shell style goodies to
>>> Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair - Nginx Upstream Fair Proxy Load
>>> Balancer
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-headers-more-filter - Set and clear input and
>>> > output headers for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-cache-purge - Purge content from Nginx caches
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-fancyindex - Fancy indexes module for the Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-uploadprogress - Upload progress system for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter - Substitution filter module for Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext - WebDAV missing commands support for
>>> Nginx
>>> > libnginx-mod-rtmp - RTMP support for Nginx
>>> >
>>> > To access further information about this package, please visit the
>>> > following URL:
>>> >
>>> > https://mentors.debian.net/package/nginx/
>>> >
>>> > Alternatively, you can download the package with 'dget' using this
>>> command:
>>> >
>>> > dget -x
>>> > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nginx/nginx_1.18.0-9.dsc
>>> >
>>> > While we are at it, can a sponsor or DD please push a dak command to
>>> > ftp-master so that I can use my Debian Maintainer status to push nginx
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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