On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:> maintainers are no longer valid.A I'm starting the unresponsive
>
> Greetings, we've been told that the email addresses for two package
> maintainer policy to find out if they are still interested in> addresses in FAS).A If they're not interested in maintaining or we
> maintaining their packages (and if so, have them update their email
> can't locate them I'll have FESCo orphan the packages so that othersTo my understanding, this is the problem: when someone leaves Red Hat either
> 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?
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that the email is no longer valid.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.
Well yeah I thought about something along this line, because in the
those cases we do have the possibility to deal with it before the person
actually leaves and it would make the whole process a bit easier, because we could then act proactively.
Johannes
Again, that is my understanding of the situation.
Pierre
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