Re: Promoting co-maintainer to main maintainer for orphaned packages?

Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:43:33 +0100

I would object! We've been there prior we arrived to the current 
workflow. And the typical situation was that such package was moved from 
one non-responsive maintainer to the other non-responsive maintainer. 
With my handle beginning with "v" I was always the last to become the 
maintainer and I can telly you, waiting or actively calling out other 
inactive maintainers is PITA. I don't think there is any big issue with 
the current situation. There is 7 weeks for folks to figure that 
somebody could pick up orphaned package.

Vít

Dne 18. 12. 24 v 9:53 Miroslav Suchý napsal(a):
Dne 18. 12. 24 v 1:38 dop. maxwell--- via devel-announce napsal(a):
The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they
are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know 
for sure
that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper 
reason:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life

I see lots of packages that are orphaned, but have one or more 
co-maintainer. Sometimes they may quickly take the package, sometimes 
they may be on holidays.

Would you object if promote a co-maintainer to main maintainer for 
orphaned packages and make it a rule?

...

Here is random example from today's announce of orphaned packages:

             Package (co)maintainers           Status Change
================================================================================ 

Singular                          orphan, rdieter                  0 
weeks ago
cddlib                            jjames, orphan                   0 
weeks ago

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