On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:41:19 -0500, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Furthermore, these are really just leaving Fedora Core, but should still > be in Fedora Extras AFAIK. This is entirely unclear to anyone sitting outside the Red Hat fenceline. I have no idea if the people who maintain something inside Core will continue to be required to maintain or volunteer to maintain the package as part of Extras. I fully expect some packages will have to change maintainers as part of moving to Extras. If i had the luxury to demand one thing from Red Hat package maintainers I would demand to know if for each dropped package out of Core if the Red Hat maintainer who was maintaining it inside Core is going to continue maintain it as part of Extras of if a community member needs to be found to maintain the dropped packages. It is totally unclear from my perspective whether or not dropped from Core means the original Core maintainer is no longer going to be the person maintaining it in Extras. For every package dropped from Core from now on... i want to know if its being orphaned by the maintainer and if a new maintainer needs to be found. And i want to know it ASAP. I want the list of orphaned packages consolidated into a webpage so that its easily cross-referenced when questions about why it was totally dropped come up. As soon as Red Hat makes the decision to drop a package from Core and its decided if the original Core maintainer is not going to maintain it as part of Extras.. the community needs to be told.. so the community can determine a new maintainer and start the indoctrination of a new maintainer if the person who steps up is a packaging novice. For orphaned packages that the original Core maintainer is no longer going to maintain as part of Extras.. The ealier the community knows its orphaned... the less time it will be unavailable if a new packager is the one who steps up out of the community and volunteers to maintain it. I'm not asking for a garuntee that the package will always be available. But I am asking that the community be given as much lead time as possible to start the process of selecting a new maintainer. If ANY of these packages are not going to be maintained by the original Core maintainers as part of Extras... tell the community NOW so that someone can step up and offer to maintain it. -jef"Don't make me read your minds... my brain wave laser tends to cause dandruff"spaleta
