Hi, On 01/16/2010 03:50 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> 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. > > In general I've been running the FTBFS scripts about monthly; maybe > less so as we approach a release (nearly all packages get rebuilt, > especially if there's a mass rebuild that happens). I think that's > frequent enough to detect FTBFS; also we're not yet proposing dropping > packages that don't rebuild in F13 yet; only those that never got > rebuilt for F12. So the FTBFS now-orphaned packages are at 1 year old > with no real progress to speak of. > > >> 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. > > We could easily create a new class of bugzilla ticket, say > "MAINTAINED". An automated process would generate such tickets, > blocking F13MAINTAINED. The ticket would ask the maintainer to close > the ticket to remain the owner of the package. Tickets still open > after $SOMEDELAY would be candidates for orphan or non-responsive > maintainer process. Repeat at $SOMEINTERVAL, perhaps once per release > cycle (more would be too onerous I think). > > With a slight modification, my ftbfs bugzilla script could generate > the tickets. > > Thoughts? > Bad idea (says someone who owns 150 packages). I don't feel like getting 150 bugzilla mails and having to (mass) close them each release. Regards, Hans -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
