On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 12:03, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 18:47, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 10:38 -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > I'm definitely in favor. I hit this broken step a while back myself. ;( > > > > > > Hopefully the current maintainers are on board with this? > > > > Yeah, honestly, I'm not sure a Change is the right way to go about > > this, it seems like it could just be handled between maintainers. > > nforro - who maintains mailx - has not committed to it for two years, > > but is very active on other packages (adding him to CC). If he is OK > > with the change, I would think you could just go ahead and do it (have > > nforro retire mailx) without needing to go through the Change process. > > I CC'd him (and tkorbar) on the first mail in this thread, and I only > started this thread after emailing them directly to discuss it (I > probably should have mentioned that I'd already run it by them). > Nikola suggested in that private discussion that retiring mailx was > probably the way to go, so I started this thread. > > > If you file a Change, I think all that will happen is that a lot more > > bureaucracy will happen before somebody says "hey, we'd better ask > > nforro about this" anyway. :D > > I think he's already on board with the change, and I think everybody > would be happier to Just Do It without a change proposal. I just > wanted to start a discussion and make sure the right process was > followed. ... and of course to check that nobody would object, on the grounds that they need the crufty mailx for some reason. > It sounds like I'm not the only person to waste time scratching my > head at the heirloom-mailx fossil, and so we should just retire it! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
