Hello.
I worked as COBOL programmer in the past, but after reading the following article:
I decided to install gnu-cobol package to refresh my knowledge on COBOL but, to my surprise, gnu-cobol package has been retired from Fedora 32 repositories. Does anybody know why?
I had to fall back to
https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/
Regards.
It was retired long ago:
It was orphaned and no one picked it up for six weeks, so it was retired:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers
Oh, what a pity! It’s good time to resume it’s maintenance! 
Regards!
Someone is working on it 
1823419 – Review Request: gnucobol - COBOL compiler
Well, it needs someone to do the work of maintaining it. In this case we’re lucky that someone else stepped up, but if not it would have remained orphaned + retired. (The Fedora package maintainers are volunteers so they won’t take up packages they don’t need themselves.)
Since you do use it and have the necessary technical skills to build it, would you please volunteer as a co-maintainer and ensure that it isn’t retired again?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers
You can get sponsored as a co-maintainer:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group
Well… I’ll first have to learn how to make a rpm package 
Thanks for your links!
Regards.
It isn’t much harder than building software from source. So you’ll be fine. Feel free to start a new topic in the #community:contributing-to-fedora category if you have queries.
someone is writing a post in 
magazine about your interest:
Regards.,
Here is the Magazine Post:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=31565
Available for → 32,33,34
Regards.,
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