On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:25:33 -0500 notting@xxxxxxxxxx (Bill Nottingham) wrote: > Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > I'm mostly of the opinion that they shouldn't be kept limping > > > indefinitely without an *actual* owner. > > > > Check how FE has handled this: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers > > > > I don't see why this should not be applicable in future. > > > > One problem however: The ACLs prevent volunteers from stepping in > > and to take over rsp. to remove a package. > > Sure, that's how to *obtain* ownership if you desire it, and Toshio > has mentioned in this thread how he'd like to make that step easy. > > What I'm concerned about is packages remaining orphaned long-term, > because either no one wants to maintain them, or not maintain > them more than a rebuild for depedencies, etc. That's not really > covered here. Yeah, there needs to be periodic 'culling' of the orphans. If they haven't been picked up in a while (how long?) they should get: - removed from the repository (all branches?) - all open bugs closed with 'this package isn't maintained anymore, sorry' - bugzilla component removed? - cvs rm'ed and dead.package put in place. Perhaps that could be automated somehow? Of course it's possible that removing an orphan will break a non orphan package, so what do we do there? Let it be broken and the maintainer can bring the orphan back if they want? We could do it something like a week before test3 every cycle? or Just try and run it once a week or something? Right now there are over 100 orphans that should get cleaned out... > Another point is that we probably need to set up an official place > where people can watch and track owner changes, package changes, etc > to orphaned packages, much in the same way that owners get all the > commits to their own packages now. Yeah, if this was done via script it could mail a report to maintainers? and/or have a fedora people feed to post what orphans were nuked? > Bill kevin
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