Greetings Fedora developers... First some background for folks that were not around back in the day: There used to be a "Fedora Core" and a "Fedora Extras". "Fedora Core" was maintained internally inside Red Hat by Red Hat employees. "Fedora Extras" was maintained by community folks much in the way Fedora is now. After Fedora Core 6 was released, "Fedora Core" and "Fedora Extras" were merged into "Fedora". This was pretty much done by moving all the "Fedora Core" Packages into the external/community Extras infrastructure. During this merge, it was noted that the "Fedora Extras" packages had all passed a review of some kind and in general were more in line with packaging guidelines and such, while the Core packages had not had reviews and in many cases were created long before the current guidelines were in place or known. So, "Merge review" tickets were filed on all the formerly Core packages so they could get reviewed and checked for compliance with the current guidelines. There was an initial push to review this packages and try and get them all done, but several factors combined to make this not happen: lack of reviewers, lack of response from maintainers who feel review is cosmetic and low priority, etc. So, here we are today with 242 still open merge reviews: http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/MERGE.html (Plus a few that were closed when they shouldn't have been). So, what do we do? Some possible options: a) Just close them all, any bugs in spec files in those packages can be filed as bugs against them. b) Try and make some kind of concerted effort to get the last 242 done? We would need both people willing to review and maintainers willing to commit changes and get things completed. c) Just leave them open and let people pick pick pick away at them a few at a time? We might be done by Fedora20. Or perhaps not. d) Require new package submissions to the review queue to show that they reviewed a merge review before their package could be reviewed. e) Stop allowing non merge review packages into the collection until the merge reviews were all done. f) Make a concerted push to clear the NEEDSPONSOR blocker. Get all those folks sponsored and ask them all to do a few merge reviews. g) Your clever idea here.... Thoughts? kevin
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