On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 10:42:14 -0800, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think that's OK. We shouldn't be afraid to dump packages from the > > distro when the maintainer goes away. If someone really wants them, > > someone will step up to contribute them. > > > Did we ever develop a probational maintainership path that would make > it easier for people who cared about orphaned packages to help with > the workload as a means to show right-action and and packaging > knowledge so they can gain full sponsorship? I think a few people have gotten approval to be comaintainers as their entry to packaging, but I haven't followed those cases closely. _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board