On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:14 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 7:46 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * Fabio Valentini:
> >
> > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:23 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> * Fabio Valentini:
> > >>
> > >> > In the past few weeks, it has come up regularly that future
> > >> > "module-only" packages are orphaned (and hence will soon be retired),
> > >> > and nobody stepped up to fix this issue - especially for non-leaf
> > >> > packages. I don't think fedora as a project has a solution for this
> > >> > yet.
> > >> >
> > >> > I propose to create a "Stewardship" Group / SIG that will take care of
> > >> > such packages - either until a new main maintainer steps up, or until
> > >> > modularity matures enough so it won't be necessary anymore. (Or, until
> > >> > it dies a quiet death, which is always a possibility.) However, I
> > >> > think this is necessary until the situation stabilizes.
> > >>
> > >> The name sounds very confusing to me, considering that this seems to be
> > >> specific to modular content.
> > >
> > > That's why I'm asking for comments. I failed to come up with a better
> > > name, though.
> > >
> > > This Group / SIG would provide "classic" maintainership for otherwise
> > > semi-abandoned packages that only live on as franken-packages
> > > ("modules"), until the remaining shortcomings of modules are overcome,
> > > or until they are abandoned.
> >
> > It's still not clear to me what this group is supposed to do.
> >
> > Does the group produce modular or non-modular content? What would
> > qualify a package for maintenance by this group?
> >
> > Why don't we need this in a non-module context? Why do modules require
> > such a group?
> >
>
> This group would be for maintaining packages that are modularized in a
> non-module context so that it's actually usable by the broader
> ecosystem. Modules are not usable for non-module packages, and third
> parties building on top of Fedora can't use modules at all either.
> Since module developers don't care about these users, this SIG will.
Exactly. This clarification is definitely more succinct than I
anything I could have said.
> Fabio, I'm willing to help where I can with this, too.
Thank you!
>
> --
> 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
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