On 02/26/2015 09:31 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: >>>> If no volunteer shows up for maintenance of old JDK then it would be >>>> deprecated and obsoleted, as it's was done with previous JDK packages. >>> >>> How would that work _exactly_? >> >> 1) JDK maintainers announce deprecation in advance and call for >> volunteers to maintain old JDK >> >> 2) when the time of deprecation comes, JDK package is reassigned to new >> maintainer, if such showed up; no obsoletes are added > > We speak about people that are already Fedora packagers, right? Just sponsoring someone that showed up and let him/her maintain legacy JDK in Fedora is recipe for disaster. Either could work, but new packagers would need to find a sponsor. I would have no problem sponsoring someone that shows involvement in Fedora and has good knowledge about JDK internals, for example OpenJDK upstream developer. > For not-yet-packagers they would have to go through the full review-sponsoring process. No package review is necessary to sponsor new packager. -- Mikolaj Izdebski Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct