Try to onboard package(s) of FAS user jplesnik for Fedora downstream automation

[lbarcziova]

Followup of #2227

• check whether the maintainer already uses Packit, if yes, contact them and ask about the feedback, offer help with setting up Packit for their other packages

If no:

• contact the maintainer (Matrix/Slack/email), introduce Packit downstream automation and ask if you could create a PR with Packit config for one of their packages (you can ask whether they have access to the upstream repos or would be interested in having the config only in dist-git)
  • use the mail template (adjust it if needed)

After an agreement:

• check this spreadsheet for the list of packages and choose one (ideally with pending release to rebase, having Git upstream, easy to configure),
  • the spreadsheet should be updated accordingly, make sure that the package was not onboarded already (there is overlap of the packages since they can have multiple maintainers)
• create a Packit configuration setting up the Fedora downstream automation (for syncing start with one branch to not spam)
• optionally test the syncing locally (see comment)
• create a PR, try to do a test run (/packit pull-from-upstream --with-pr-config) and communicate further with the maintainer the follow-up steps (e.g. create issues if some functionality is missing, setup on more of their packages)

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Part of #2204 epic

[xsuchy]

Jitka is using a packit for a package she inherited https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl-Date-Manip and claims that it likely did not get filed PR despite recent release. Going to check.
I explained packit configs and pull-from upstream, provided two templates. And after a discussion opened two RFEs:
packit/packit#2196
packit/packit#2195

[xsuchy]

Hmm seems Anitya config is correct https://release-monitoring.org/project/2785/
New upstream release happened a week ago https://github.com/SBECK-github/Date-Manip/tags
But no PR in https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/perl-Date-Manip

[xsuchy]

Oh, the job failed https://dashboard.packit.dev/results/pull-from-upstream/5892 (BTW it is painful to find result of older jobs).

[xsuchy]

Ouch it failed to download tarball from https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-6.94.tar.gz
It exists now. I guess the timeflow was:

1. create a release on GitHub
2. Anitya noticed that, Packit was triggered, download failed
3. upstream uploaded tarball to cpan

this whole may happened in 5 minutes :(

[xsuchy]

I opened packit/packit#2197

[xsuchy]

I am moving this to backlog. Until the packit/packit#1954 is resolved I really cannot continue with onboarding of Jitka as all her packages are perl-* and will likely hit the same bug again and again.

[lbarcziova]

The blocking issue is resolved now, we retry the downloading up to 1 hour.

[lbarcziova]

This should be done.