On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 12:00:49 +0200 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 23:00:52 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have been wondering about the lack of updates for sylpheed on Fedora. > > Neither the stable 3.2 nor the new develomental 3.3.1 has been provided: > > I looked up Bugzilla requests but they seem not to have been fulfilled. > > Is sylpheed on the road to becoming an orphan in Fefora? > > A package in the Fedora collection is maintained by at least one person. > It can happen that this person leaves without notice. It can also happen > that there are co-maintainers, but the multiple maintainers don't > communicate with eachother. And it can happen that the package "owner" > owns packages without being active, and co-maintainers expect the owner to > be more active or drop the package and not pretend that packages are > being maintained. > > http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/sylpheed > -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/843901 > -> sylpheed-3.3.0beta1 is available > -> Reported: 2012-07-27 11:44 EDT by Upstream Release Monitoring > > -- Since I don't see how one can compel an owner to inform all when he leaves (unless done voluntarily), perhaps one way out could be to have co-maintainers be informed if BZ requests have not been acted (not necessarily resolved) on for more than a month (pick a reasonable timeframe)? At the same time, requests could go out for more co-maintainer (volunteers) if the number of co-maintainers drops precipitously low? Best, Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM?, MSN? Messenger, Yahoo!? Messenger, ICQ?, Google Talk? and most webmails -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
