On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Brett Lentz wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > > > > > Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which no one claims > > > > ownership or the owner cannot be found? > > > > > > > > > > Has something like an AWOL procedure been considered? > > > > > > > Not really, thats kind of what I'm probing about. People didn't like the > > 6 month rule so I'm fine getting rid of that. But someone needs to be > > accountable for the code itself at all times and I'm hoping to have some > > policy in place that clearly states it. > > > > -Mike > > > I'd prefer to not see orphaned projects go away completely, if there is > some way to keep them around in a stripped down, minimalist format. > > The process I'd like to see would be: > > 1. Do the usual 6 month project no-activity process. > 2. If there is no response in N days, or mail to the project admin > bounces in a fatal way (i.e. "no such user" vs. "mailbox full"), we call > out to the general fedora-devel community to see if anyone wants to > adopt the project and become its new maintainer. > 3. If no new maintainer is found, we would then migrate the project to a > central repository for orphaned projects. > For how long would 3) happen? -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
