Dne 21.11.2011 21:56, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" napsal(a): > Given that I'm migrating bunch of legacy init script to native systemd > ones and I have come many packages that seem that maintainer(s) have > deserted them but for some bizarre reason we still continue to package > and keep rolling them between release and now I came across bug 738442 > which seriously begs the question that the whole cleanup process needs > to be revisited. > > Instead of everybody that are doing needed work in the distribution > having to run around after maintainers trying to find out if they are > still active or not and initiate the unresponsive maintainer policy, > cant we revert the process and have maintainer(s) having to reassure > their ownership on their package(s) at the begin of each development > cycle and if they dont do that before x time, the package(s) they > maintain will be automatically orphaned and given up for someone else to > grab and take ownership before x time runs out and if nobody does they > get remove from the distribution? > > I cant image how much resources across the project have been spent on > packages that no longer are being actively maintained but have not been > removed from the distribution. > > JBG I can't agree more. And I have proposal how to improve a bit this situation: It would be reasonable, on the beginning of each development cycle, to publish a list of packages which were not touched by it maintainer in previous release. For all these packages, new co-maintainer could stepped up and they would be granted the co-maintainers privileges automatically. This will not help probably with the initial case you are complaining, i.e. 4 years old unmaintained package, but it would help with others I am willing to maintain but the maintainer is nonresponsive. I remember at leas one example from history when I was not able to reach the maintainer and at the end he was quite angry that I was so daring to call him unresponsive, even though I wanted just to help him. Also, there are other packages I asked for ACL's but never get them confirmed. Vit -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
