On 15. 02. 19 14:14, Neal Gompa 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.
How can I help solve this(*) on FESCo level?
I think this is tearing Fedora apart.
However we cannot forbid packagers to orphan their packages.
(*) that module developers don't care about these users
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