Perhaps the right thing to do in this kind of case is to:
1. Move the package into extras. If no owner *immediately* steps forward,
tag it as "unmaintained". Unmaintained modules sit in CVS but never get
built.
2. Come up with a mechanism for notifying folks about the unmaintained
modules.
3. If a module is unmaintained for a certain period of time, we may choose
to dump it from CVS. Or not.
That way, something like xloadimage gets archived until that time if/when
someone chooses to pick it back up.
Just thinkin'.
--g
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway (tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
> > >> > Remind me again - what uses gimp-print-cups?
> > >>
> > >> People who don't want to use system-config-printer. I think it's
> > >> probably okay to remove the package from the CD.
> > >
> > >Yeah, I'd go ahead and do it. Woo, 25MB! :)
> >
> > Tim, are you going to maintain this in Fedora Extras? Anything we drop
> > from FC4 should go into Extras, unless its unmaintained upstream or a
> > license change has happened.
>
> (Note that this is a subpackage, FWIW.)
>
> I disagree. Whether or not a package removed from Core should be
> in Extras depends on many things, including: how useful it was to
> begin with, whether or not there's any interest from the community
> and maintaining it, what the burden of maintaining it in Fedora
> is, etc.
>
> There's no reason to demand that something like xloadimage or comsat
> be in Extras if no one cares about it, and whether or not will
> happen I don't feel is a determining factor on the package's status
> for remaining in Core.
>
> Bill
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