On Thu 04 Sep 2014 01:35:53 PM CEST Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:38:52AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz 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: >> > >> > > Greetings, we've been told that the email addresses for two package >> > > maintainers are no longer valid. 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). 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? >> >> Why would even someone's employment status matter? Fedora is a community project. > > And much like anyone else, people come and go. The difference is that here, when > they leave, we know about it before emails start to bounce. Indeed. I have forwarded this thread to colleagues working on processes when people are leaving RH to make sure we do necessary checks/cleanups. Note that we don't want to automatically orphan packages when people from RH leave (that would be rude) since people actually do work on stuff outside of their work... -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> Business System Analyst, Hosted and Shared Services PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
