On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:03:43 -0800 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This has come up nearly every release cycle. Problem is that nobody > can seem to agree on what an appropriate "sign of life" would be, no > has made a serious FESCo proposal for a contrived sign of life. > > I don't think anybody disagrees (well maybe KKoffler) that > unmaintained software should be discovered and ejected from the > distro, the entirety of the problem lies how to discover (as well as > side issues about what to do about maintainers that are active for > one package, but completely ignore 3 others, etc…) > > So if you are serious about wanting this fixed, draft a proposal, > figure out who's going to do the coding work, and bring it to FESCo. To quote Ajax: +! I think the current policy is not very ideal either, but haven't had time/energy to work out a new one. ;) My last thought was to come up with a automated/script way to gather info from: bugzilla, pkgdb, koji, git, mailing lists, etc and output a list of 'likely inactive people'. Then, have a group of humans look at the list, and try and contact/ping people. With no reply after a timeperiod, orphan their packages. Note that we need to balance here cases like: * maintainer is very active, just ignoring $leafpackage right now. * maintainer is on vacation/sick/etc * maintainer needs help, we should try and help them out. * maintainer doesn't use our bugzilla as their primary bug zone. * maintainer maintains a software that has a vast number of bugs and they can't deal with them all. * maintainer is working on higher priority bug, so ignoring feature requests/etc. Anyhow, I for one would welcome written up, concrete proposals here. kevin
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