Excerpts from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek's message of 2018-08-28 08:38 +00:00: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 04:56:58PM +1000, Dan Callaghan wrote: > > What does it mean for a package to be owned by orphan while it still > > has other admins who are real people? > > > > Is this some kind of edge case where the package was owned by > > a maintainer who was inactive, and thus their packages got "orphaned", > > even though there are still other maintainers? Is there any record where > > we can see when or why these changes were made? > > Hi, > > FESCo voted yesterday to "send info to all co-maintainers and > fedora-devel, [...] after a week reassign to one co-maintainer, if no > co-maintainers, retire". The text in Till's mail was not adjusted to > reflect this. Nevertheless, the plan is to do what was voted. > > The reason why we don't just reassign all packages to co-maintainers > right now is that often it's not clear which if any of the other > maintainers are active. So in this first round we ask people to > take ownership explicitly, and will do the automatic procedure for > the rest. > > > And is the solution here that one of the existing co-maintainers should > > just go into the Pagure settings and click... some button to become the > > "main admin" so that it's no longer orphaned? > > Unfortunately there is no "button" in pagure, and the process to take > a package is a manual releng ticket. > > Yeah, it's all quite a bit more manual and messy than it should be. Thanks for the explanation, this was the context I was missing. I have filed a ticket about reassigning python-configobj, we can sort it out between the existing co-maintainers (whichever are still active) in the ticket: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7727 -- Dan Callaghan <dcallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Software Engineer, Products & Technologies DevOps Red Hat
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