Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx) said: > So it looks like we failed to CC the public list on the discussions, darn… > > This was discussed in a mail exchange with the Insight maintainer, krege > (the maintainer who picked up the rest of the itcl stack just before the > mass-retiring) and Bill Nottingham (the admin who did the mass-retiring, who > we CCed on the whole exchange). Krege agreed to picking up iwidgets if it > got unretired, but we didn't get any answer from notting, not even a "no", > just no reaction at all. Sorry, I should have at least replied with a pointer to the unretire process. But just CC'ing me and expecting me to manually handle exceptions is no process at all - it doesn't scale, and it encourages the playing of favorites. Even if you think exceptions are warranted, file a ticket - that way it can be tracked. In any case, that thread quickly devolved into discussions of just how obsolete insight may or may not be, without any real statement of strong desire to keep it. However, what you state is 'common sense' is merely manual load. If you've got a way that we can track when packages were orphaned that's easily auditable and scriptable, we can adjust the process to have some sort of grace period. Since we don't have that data easily, that's why the policy is the way it is. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
