On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:13:29 +0100, Ralf wrote: > On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > At today's FESCo meeting, it was agreed that all the below packages > > would be marked orphan. > > Well, if FESCO thinks this was a good idea ... I think you guys stopped > half-ways: You better should have launched AWOL-processes against these > maintainers. It's a more fundamental problem, though. The AWOL-process is for people, not for packages. The people may still be active (and even known to be active somewhere) and not AWOL, but the packages which are assigned to them would still look orphaned. FTBFS is just one way to find packages that don't even build. However, if that happens, it may be much too late. Such a package may have been in an unmaintained desolate state for a long time already. With nobody handling the incoming bugzilla tickets. With some bug reports having been killed in an automated way at dist EOL. And worse if it turns out that packages which do build are unmaintained nevertheless, with the same symptoms in bugzilla and in package scm. Makes me wonder what bugzilla status report scripts we have? To create a list of potentially unmaintained packages earlier and to detect packages with non-responsive owners. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
