On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open > > > since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build. These > > > are the oldest non-building packages in the distribution, everything > > > else (over 8800) managed to build for Fedora 12 or newer already. > > > > At today's FESCo meeting, it was agreed that all the below packages > > would be marked orphan. I know several of these have been fixed by > > provenpackagers already - you are welcome to un-orphan and maintain > > them going forward, or the original package owner may choose to do so. > > What about the other packages of these maintainers? E.g. in the > recordmydesktop case, there were four bugs open with working patches > attached for that package. I did not yet check the other packages, but > in case a packager does not have the time anymore to maintain one > package from this list, why do we assume that he has the time to > maintain the others? > So before the mass orphaning is done, it would be nice to do it in a way > that allows to at least easily spot which maintainers owned the packages > before the orphage, so non responsive maintainers can be found easier. > Or tell all maintainers in question and orphan all their packages. But > the current solution seems to be only half-baked. I made sure that no one who fixed a package was actually the package owner. Pre-orphaning: evolution-brutus bpepple geronimo-specs fnasser gmfsk bjensen (fixed by caolanm) gnome-scan deji Io-language orphan (fixed by caolanm) knm_new-fonts orphan libFoundation athimm ohm cjb (should be dead) perl-AnyEvent-XMPP allisson (WIP by spot) perl-Class-InsideOut cweyl (fixed by Ralf) perl-Jemplate cweyl (fixed by Spot) perl-MooseX-Traits-Attribute-CascadeClear cweyl (spot says kill it) perl-RRD-Simple cweyl (spot says kill it) perl-SVN-Mirror iburrell (fixed by Till Maas; spot says kill it) perl-SVN-Simple iburrell prctl karsten qtiplot frankb skychart lkundrak smarteiffel orphan synce-kde awjb unifdef dwmw2 widelands karlik (WIP by hdegoede) xpilot-ng wart (fixed by hdegoede) xqilla10 orphan xqilla orphan -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
