On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:30, Paul Heinlein wrote: > It seems to me that, depending on the urgency of the fix, the owner > of the most recent rpm changelog entry ought to be given first shot. > Of course, if that person is @redhat.com, then a new maintainer will > need to be found. Still, I think we want to avoid setting up a > situation where "first caller wins," especially if the previous > maintainer is still interesting in providing package support. How about this then. The Wiki would be pre-populated with the name in parens () of the last non-redhat changelog author. Until a date shows up, it's still kinda up for grabs, to touch on your below statement. If the last author is still active, and sees the notice sent to the legacy-request list or something like that, he can then tack on a date and thus the package is picked up and accounted for. > The tricky situation would be the announcement of an urgent security > fix (i.e., an exploit is already in the wild) and the previous > changelog entrant is hiking Mt. McKinley or has taken a lucrative job > in Redmond, WA. :-) Then the wiki could provide a relatively clear > channel of communication for volunteers looking to get a patched rpm > into the repository. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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