Dne 18. 12. 24 v 13:18 Miroslav Suchý napsal(a):
Dne 18. 12. 24 v 10:53 dop. Daniel P. Berrangé napsal(a):I don't accept that co-maintainers are (or should be assumed to be) "typically" non-responsive. That is a depressing denigration of many Fedora co-maintainer's work.During this year, as part of my work on SPDX, I opened several hundreds PR at src.fedoraproject.org. Only fraction of the maintainers reacted. I do not have hard data on my hand, It could be about 20-30% of maintainer that responded. Definitelly way bellow of 40%.That is the reality. I wish it would be different. But I cannot change it. And we should not deny it.
BTW what problem do you want to fix actually? Having orphaned packages on itself is not a problem IMHO. Having owned packages with unresponsive maintainers *is* real problem OTOH.
I your SPDX case, you should be happy that packages are removed from Fedora faster.
Vít
Yes, there will be cases where a co-maintainer is not responsive, but we shouldn't design our policy to assume our maintainers are doing a bad job by default.Hold on. Non-responsive maintainer != bad job.Fedora is made of volunteers. They have they own work. They own priorities. Maybe they just become parent. Or they have hard times. And they do not want to be connected right now.And then we have a package that have release every few years. The spec changelog consists of "mass rebuild for FXX". And the package works without problem. And we have many of such packages. And suddenly main maintainer orphans the package. And we have 6 weeks window where we need to find a new maintainer. In situation where there is co-maintainer - likely willing to take over the package. But if he did not read emails in 6 weeks, does it make them doing a bad job? I do not think so.
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