On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:24 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > 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'. > > Seems a bit overkill. Why not just a mail to fedora-list or something asking "If we drop this, will anybody pick it up for Extras?" If nobody answers in a day or so, bombs away. If somebody does speak up, hand them the CVS module. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
