#+TITLE: Join Fedora and Maintain Package
#+DESCRIPTION: I love this distro
#+DATE: <2023-04-01 六>

(2023.7) I don't quite like RedHat now, although I started from it. So I'm leaving...

* The story
nvi installed on fedora using =nix-env= can't dieplay widechar, but fedora native build can.
And the nix build is using patches from f33 repo, so I want to bring nvi back to Fedora.
(2023.7) I tried hours to figure out how to build nvi that can display widechar using nix, but failed each time.
It's actually because nix uses C locale by default ([[./usenet_and_cli_browsers.org][mentioned with offpunk]]).

* Why retired, nvi is a good software, isn't it?
The reason why it is orphaned and retired is "Failed to build from source".
Actually it is because unable to fetch source from http://www.kotnet.org/~skimo/nvi
since kotnet.org is a student orgnization and seems disappeared in 2014.
But we can get alternative source from [[https://repo.or.cz/nvi.git][git]] or Debian(NixOS gets it from there) or Slackware(mentioned above) etc.

* Do it
So I want to help. If I can make this package available, thousands of user will benifit from this.
*I love this distro.*
I created BugZilla and Fedora account, the fedora account is useable in nearly all fedora services, great!
这里面水很深 [[https://apps.fedoraproject.org][Fedora Infrastructure Map]]

Fixing the code is easy, +but following the polices and communicating with people is the hard part I guess+.
After reading /The Cathedral and the Bazaar/, I think Fedora is Cathedral, and NixOS's noisy github issue is Bazar.

To start, I need to follow the guides:
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Package_Maintainers
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Policy_for_orphan_and_retired_packages/#unorphaning_and_unretiring_packages
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Packaging_Tutorial_GNU_Hello

I submitted review request to BZ[fn:1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183721
And fill in the releng issue with BZ url: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11370
And send an email to devel: [[https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/3FVVQXJMJDH6TTOWJZV2QLSZG4QO42WU][Unretire nvi (make Berkeley vi great again)]]

btw you can check repo through api using curl (learned in mailing list)
#+BEGIN_SRC shell
curl https://src.fedoraproject.org/api/0/rpms/nvi
#+END_SRC

(2023.6.28) Nyxt 3.0 released, but the Nix one don't work well on Fedora.
If they don't make a flatpak release, I will build it on copr then add it to the main repo.

* Mailing list
some interesting thread in the list
** [[https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YUMAS5GP7QTKVRX4PHKAMFYVZQRDVXZP][Anyone interested in packaging nim-lang?]]
first, I'm also interested in Nim and found it not available
second, it is also orphaned and then retired
** [[https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/VBFDPQHAHF3WG6WBZR2L5GSWMW6CVTJS][%patchN deprecated?]]
yes, deprecated, so I need to change it in my packages
** [[https://lwn.net/Articles/912202][LWN: Packaging Rust for Fedora]]
not mail, but interesting

* BZs I'm interested in
** [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183700][Review Request: nim - A statically typed compiled systems programming language]]
** [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192986][Review Request: hyprland - Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks]]
** [[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152222][Update vis editor to 0.8]]

* Footnotes
[fn:1] [[https://acyanbird.github.io/2022/10/15/向EPEL请求新的包][向EPEL请求新的包(群主写的)]]