Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

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Dne 6.11.2012 16:04, Ralf Corsepius napsal(a):
On 11/06/2012 02:24 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
Dne 6.11.2012 14:17, Aleksandar Kurtakov napsal(a):
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From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 2:56:18 PM
Subject: Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

So give me the permission [1] as well as the others who requested it
before me.

Apparently the current owner doesn't care. You can compare the
version
history in koji [2] and [3] and if he doesn't care about one package,
it
is reasonable to doubt that the other packages will be in better
state.
The problem here is that pkgdb requests are not auto approved after
some timeout period if the maintainer hasn't reacted.

That would be sweet if it would be auto approved.

Do you want a backdoor permitting all script kidz and overzealous, but unexperienced newcomers to automatically take over packages?

Come on, there are the same alarmist who think that Wikipedia will be hijacked and destroyed but have it happened any time?

You are still maintainer, you are still owner and you are notified by email about every change in your package, so you'll be able to catch such activity pretty soon and act accordingly.


I regret having to say so, but the unpleasant fact is, Fedora does have such "participants".

Such people are everywhere. May be they can trick the system, become proven packager and takeover you packages. Who knows. You can never be sure.


When I do not react upon requests,

I appreciate you swiftly react upon request, but unfortunately that does not imply that every other packager will react as swiftly as you.

I usually either missed or forgot about the request or deliberately do not yet want to approve. That said, what I feel is missing in Fedora's pkgdb web-forms is an option to "leave a comment to applicant" and an "some automated reminder mechanisms" to remind "approvers" about pending requests.

There is bugzilla, but it is definitely not the most flexible tool on the world.


Ralf


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