Re: Attempting to contact two unresponsive maintainers - dajt and jpacner

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 12:05:52PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 09/04/2014 05:38 AM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Johannes Lips wrote:
> >>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.
> When they leave RedHat they presumably will no longer have @redhat.com
> addresses, so at least that has to be taken care of. RedHat presumably has
> an exit process and it would be nice if this recurring issue was somehow
> handled by it.
> 

  It's clear, that the problem is in people not updating their email address.
Especially when they use employee email and leaving the company, they
should change their FAS/bugzilla address to something more permanent.

  I see the problem in people maintaining packages solely because
Red Hat employs them.  It decreases Fedora's sustainability as
an independent project.

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Tomasz Torcz                 "God, root, what's the difference?"
xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx         "God is more forgiving."

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