Finally I withdrew my review request for Nautilus Flickr Uploader, after 15 months updating the ticket.
The main reason is that currently I don’t have the time and the energy to start reading documentation again and completing the process. It sounds like a poor excuse, but it’s true: I changed job recently and it needs a long commuting every day, and I have to move (again) to a new city in the short term, so I have almost no free time.
I guess that the situation will change around March, and I’ll be ready to try it again, but meanwhile it would be great if someone took over the package (the spec file ).
But is true that my busy life is not the only reason. First, the application is doing it well: it has more users that I would have never expected (Flickr says there are currently 745 registered users), and I’m providing both Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian packages (without being included in the distribution).
Despite that, I think that including the application in Fedora would be good for Fedora and its users.
Second, the process has been very frustrating. I don’t know if the packaging of this application is specially complex or non-conventional, but I feel that it never got the needed attention from a reviewer. I’ve seen other packages approved in a very short time, but it’s true that they were simpler to review.
At the end, when Jason got interested on the request, I realized that it had passed so many time that I almost had forgotten all the stuff I learned when I started the process to become a package maintainer in Fedora. At this point, I don’t deserve to be a package maintainer, because I don’t have the knowledge but to package and maintain a couple of specific application (and I think that a “Fedora packager” is a more wider term).
As I said, I don’t discard the possibility of trying again when my life is less busy, but meanwhile: would you like to take care of Nautilus Flicker Uploader package?
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