Some Red Hat employees are opening new merge review tickets for packages which were in extras long before the big core-extras merge. It looks like all of these packages are so old that the reviews predate the use of Red Hat's bugzilla for the purpose, and so those reviews were either done on the old mailing list or in the old fedora.us bugzilla (which I believe has been lost). No Fedora policy requires that these packages be re-reviewed. The evidence seems to point to some Red Hat policy requiring review tickets for these packages, although I can't seem to get a proper answer from someone who actually knows. Given that the reviewers are currently overburdened and are barely able to keep up with existing submissions, plus the fact that we still have a few hundred of the original merge review tickets still open, I don't think that adding more to the pile is going to be remotely helpful. If there's a Red Hat policy which requires this, then Red Hat should be taking care of this instead of leaving it to the overburdened Fedora community. The fact that there's been no communication about it only adds insult to injury. I propose that the 'Product' on these tickets be changed to something other than 'Fedora' so that they don't appear to be part of any Fedora process. I'm happy to do that if someone can tell me which component to use. Note that I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea that old packages be revisited at some point, but we just don't have the manpower to do that right now. - J< -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
