On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Johannes Lips wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Greetings, we've been told that the email addresses for two package > maintainers are no longer valid.A I'm starting the unresponsive > maintainer policy to find out if they are still interested in > maintaining their packages (and if so, have them update their email > addresses in FAS).A If they're not interested in maintaining or we > can't locate them I'll have FESCo orphan the packages so that others > can take them over. > > Hi all, > > wouldn't it make sense to integrate a check into the processes, when > people leave Redhat, that the packages in fedora are properly orphaned or > get a new owner? > I mean this should be pretty easy to implement in a company, or? To my understanding, this is the problem: when someone leaves Red Hat either they deal with their package on their own (for example by simply changing their email address in FAS and creating the corresponding bugzilla account) or they don't. If they don't we get an automated email saying that the person has left and thus that the email is no longer valid. The thing that we actually do not know if whether the person is still interesting in contributing to Fedora. Sometime that's the case and they just say so, fix FAS and bugzilla and it's all good. Sometime that's not the case and then we need to orphan their packages and let someone else take it over. So all we can do is, when we get an email saying someone left, ask if someone know what they want to do with regards to their Fedora packages. Maybe it would be good to ask Red Hat to include Fedora in their final interview or so, but since contributing to Fedora is for a lot of people a wish and not a job, it might be missed quite often. Again, that is my understanding of the situation. Pierre -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
