On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:18:59AM -0400, Brett Lentz wrote: > On 09/07/12 08:40 -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... > > > >kevin > > > > -1 > > That's poor app design and, IMO, a bug. > > The software *should* allow the maintainer to relinquish responsiblities and > either A) designate a new maintainer OR B) have maintainership automatically > shift to the next co-maintainer (for simplicity, this could be based on date commit rights were granted to > the package's repo) > > Both use cases should be supported because allowing a co-maintained package to > be orphaned without the consent of *ALL* maintainers makes no sense. > We had (B) setup at one time but without also having (A) it was more of a bug than a feature. fchiulli has done work to enable (A) in the development branch of pkgdb but someone needs to get enough 'round 'tuits to stabilize a release.... -Toshio
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