Re: Approved packages that never get imported?

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On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 05:56, Ben Rosser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the right thing to do when a package's review is approved, but
> the package never gets imported into the distribution because the
> packager subsequently becomes non-responsive?
> 
> Is the non-responsive maintainer policy appropriate, or should the
> review be resubmitted entirely?
> 
> I've seen this in a few places and not been entirely sure what to do,
> as this isn't entirely spelled out in our policies. But the specific
> example I'm looking at right now is ocaml-re
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174036), which was
> approved back in 2015 but has not been imported.
> 
> Now the contributor in question (Jon Ludlam) hasn't been sponsored,
> but they've also been generally unresponsive to other review requests
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172771). I also sent Jon
> an email inquiring about the state of his copr repository providing
> these packages (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jonludlam/opam/)
> about a year ago and never heard back, so... technically I guess I
> could proceed with the non-responsive maintainer policy. But is that
> the right thing to do?

If he wasn't sponsored, then he couldn't have requested the package
repository to be created in Fedora git, so technically I think you (or
anyone else) could open another review request, have it approved and
import the package themselves.

Regards,
Dominik
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