On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 08:40:23AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:54:38 +0200 > Matej Cepl <mcepl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 06/07/12 22:55, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Package html401-dtds (orphan) > > > comaintained by: gnat > > > > Does it mean, we won't have HTML 4.01 DTDs packaged in Fedora? That > > sounds bad. Also, how can orphan be comaintained? Won't comaintainer > > be automatically elevated to a maintainer? > > There's no setup to do that automatically, it's up to the comaintainer > to note that the maintainer orphaned the package and take ownership. > > Normally you would think if you were co-maintaining something you would > notice if it was orphaned I would think... Except that not everyone is perfect and it is easy to miss such pkgdb mails in case someone returns from vacation. Therefore I would like it more if these procedures would be adjusted to make it harder to fail, i.e. by explicitly addressing all co-maintainers when the retiring of orphaned packages is due. I believe I proposed this already at least once. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
