Hello Bruno! A few days ago on Fedora devel@ list, the ancient and stalled Review Request of mindi-busybox has been pointed at. Together with the hint that the submitter is still waiting to be sponsored since five years. That's also the reason I'm posting a copy of this message to devel@ list. When I've had a first look in bugzilla, I've discovered that the ticket has not been displayed properly in the review queue, because it was assigned to a reviewer via the "fedora-review" flag. The review request tracker displays such tickets on a separate page only, http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/ and potential reviewers as well as sponsors assume somebody else is working on the review. There are various reasons why a review may have stalled. Only occasionally somebody makes extra effort to recheck aging tickets. Here, there has been no progress in that ticket at all until recently when it has been discovered. As a next step, I've located a few related review requests, since there are inter-dependencies. I've found: mindi : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/187317 mondo : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/187318 mindi-busybox : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/476234 buffer : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/759818 There is some confusion, and it's not easy to track down the details: 1) Package "buffer" is a re-review, because it has been retired in 2011 after it FTBFS. The re-review had been assigned to the "buffer" component, so it has not been displayed as a Review Request anywhere. 2) It has been questioned why it had been retired. Dist git claims: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/buffer.git/plain/dead.package | This package was retired on 2011-07-25 due to it being unable to | build this package for multiple releases (FTBFS). https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2011-July/639234.html But koji shows a successful build on 2011-02-08 as done by Dennis Gilmore for the Fedora 15 mass-rebuild: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=7297 In July 2011, it has been listed as "orphan", [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages in F-16 (final warning) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/154622.html and I could not find out its status at that time. Pkgdb activity gets logged to scm-commits@ list, so perhaps somebody else has more luck. 3) In koji, dist git and pkgdb, I've found that user "bcornec" has been an approved packager before *and* even the maintainer of that package: [pkgdb] buffer was added for bcornec https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2008-December/231912.html an older FTBFS ticket for that maintainer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/511589 In the Fedora Account System, user "bcornec" is not a member of the "packager" group anymore. What has happened there? 4) In the review queue, the review requests have been submitted using three different e-mail addresses. What's the status/plan with regard to these package review requests? Regards, -- Michael Schwendt (mschwendt) Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) - Linux 3.12.0-0.rc6.git1.2.fc21.x86_64 loadavg: 0.04 0.12 0.17 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
