On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 00:15 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > I'm sure there's at least a certain amount of low-hanging fruit that > > no-one would really mind getting rid of > > but how make the decisions and who do the work of investigation? Sure, that's something that would have to get figured out. Presumably those interested in throwing out packages would be the ones who'd have to volunteer to do the work, along the time-honoured principles. :) > the only thing i can imagine is > > * does not pass the mass-rebuilds for new releases or dependencies > * nobody cares to look why We already throw such packages out - there's a process by which packages which fail mass rebuilds get orphaned and then retired if no-one fixes them. There are packages that haven't been touched in years that continue to build successfully, though, and at present, they will glide along up until the point at which they fail a mass rebuild (or their maintainer actively chooses to retire them). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
