On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:36:20 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doesn't debian have some type of "orphaned package" process? We should > have a look at that. debian also has longer timescales between releases.... I'm somewhat concerned about when in the development process Red Hat makes decisions as to what gets orphaned and whether or not there is going to be enough time for new community members step up, jump through whatever legal hoops are in place around Extras, earn access to the build system and produce an Extras package before the next Core release. I'd personal rather not have any packages orphaned by Red Hat maintainers until Extras policy is flushed out. I have a twisted dark malevolent desire to force Red Hat developers to maintain the the packages dropped from Core this time around in Extras, as an experimental group for the Extras process. I'd really like to have a process with enough lead time so that when the community learns a package is to be orphaned there is a reasonable chance that a community member can get a package into Extras before the next Core is released. While we surely can not gartunee that an orphaned package will be available in time as an Extras for the next Core.. i'd hate to see a process where the timescales were such that we could garunteed that an orphaned package would never be ready in time. I'd like to make sure that a good-faith effort by a proactive community member will be rewarded with a package in Extras by the next Core release. -jef
