Recently I started to become an active Fedora packager, which is something I really enjoy. It happens, for various reasons, that a package gets orphaned by its maintainer. Lack of time, changes in upstream that make it hard to package a new version, or incompatibilities and no updates. In such a case, packages can be adopted by other packagers.
I stumbled across php-aws-sdk3 and even though I'm not actively using the SDK right now, I found it appealing to maintain this package. Might be a good opportunity to understand PHP packaging for Fedora better and brush up my old PHP knowledge a bit. And then I started to realize how fast one package can become many ;)
The magic word: Dependencies. Of course, php-aws-sdk3 depends on other packages. Some of them are orphaned to. Some need and update to be compatible. Others don't exist yet in Fedora. I ended up adopting three other packages and with ~14 new packages on my list :O
So it will take me some time to reach my goal, to keep php-aws-sdk3 alive. But I will learn a lot on that journey and build some cool and valuable packages.