Re: Upgrading to ROCm 6.1
On 2024-06-11 19:21, Jeremy Newton wrote:
> Apparently the subscription request isn't going through... I tried a few
> times.
> I tried making a gitlab account for Salsa, but looks like I'm also not
> getting confirmation emails from there either... I swear I checked my
> spam folder.
Odd. Salsa seems to be sending fine in general, the most recent message
I received was from a few minutes ago.
Let's give it until tomorrow just in case, then we should ask listmaster
for logs.
> So the packaging itself I'm familiar with, it's more of the practices
> and policies that are a bit opaque to me. E.g. how legal review works,
> what is best practices for naming and source handling, etc.
The Policy [12] contains normative practices, and the Developer's
Reference [13] some of most common best practices.
Our wiki also has a few guides. For example, the Policy states that the
debian/copyright file needs to reproduce copyrights found in the package
verbatim, and the wiki contains a page presenting utilities that can
help with the process [14].
> My gut says that if I can send a merge request on Salsa for upgrades
> for the packages I'm familiar with, I think that's my best way to
> contribute. We can figure out the detail during review, as I learn
> quicker on the job. I assume this is ok, right?
Yep, sounds good.
> On 2024-06-11 14:59, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> correctly assess the notable changes
>
> Fortunately because I work on Fedora packages, I do this already, so I
> feel like I can help out there. Someone would need to check over my work
> though to make sure it's kosher, but I can do the heavy lifting.
> For reference, Tom Rix (of Redhat) and I are currently the main
> maintainers in Fedora, and I tend to focus on the lower end, while he
> handles the higher math libraries.
Whenever you get a chance, could you share a few links with the list to
where we can see that work, something like Fedora's Salsa, so to speak?
For example, I'm curious to see what patches your packages carry,
because these should be mostly common ground, and there's a high
probability we learn from or use them.
And I hope that you might find information useful to Fedora on Salsa,
and our CI, too.
Best,
Christian
[12]: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/index.html
[13]: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/
[14]: https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools
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