Hi Fedora sponsors,

I am Akiyoshi Kurita (FAS: redadmin). My package review for gshogi (GTK front-end for GNU Shogi, RHBZ: 2388375) has been approved by Cristian Le.
I have experience maintaining and building RPM packages for AlmaLinux and EPEL, and I'm eager to contribute to Fedora as a packager.
I would greatly appreciate if someone could sponsor me.

Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Akiyoshi Kurita

I'm going to be blunt here, this feels like an ongoing social engineering attempt.

• repeatedly claiming to already be a Fedora/EPEL maintainer
• repeatedly submitting "review requests" for packages that are already in Fedora
• admitted AI-generated bugzilla comments that don't actually say anything, or don't address previous comments
• artificial urgency
• repeatedly claiming that git push ssh access is blocked to Japan, despite detailed explanations that ssh push access is not supposed to work for those not in the packager group
• claiming that those explaining things to you have "personally intervened" to block you and that this raises concerns with the "overall trustworthiness of Fedora/EPEL"
• threatening a "formal inquiry with Red Hat Japan"

I'm not the only one who feels this way. And now most recently in this gshogi review you made this statement:

The only reported issue is the well-known "Upstream MD5sum check error" related to GitHub auto-generated tarballs, which is expected and not a real problem.

This is very much a real problem, and could indicate a malicious tarball masquerading as a legitimate one. I don't speak for all Fedora sponsors, but the fact that you urge for this checksum error to be ignored is enough to dissuade me from being your sponsor. I urge other sponsors to carefully consider this request before extending their trust.

Agreed. This person should not be sponsored into the packager group. Do we have a formal procedure to enforce this?

個人的な事情により申請を取り下げます。これまでありがとうございました。

I would like to withdraw this request due to personal reasons. Thank you for your time and understanding.

Should this be closed?