Fedora Engineering Steering Committee is considering removal of packages from rawhide who have been without owners since prior to Fedora 8 sometime after the next FESCO meeting on November 29th. The Fedora Project routinely removes unmaintained packages from future distributions in order to responsibly scale the growth of maintenance burden with developer resources available within the project. http://fedorapeople.org/~wtogami/temp/rawhide-removals.txt Packages listed on this page are scheduled for removal unless an existing Fedora maintainer claims ownership. http://fedorapeople.org/~wtogami/temp/rawhide-removals.txt A Fedora package developer may use their Fedora Account in PackageDB to claim ownership of an orphaned package. Removal of an orphaned package entails "blocking" it in the buildsystem so it does not appear in the rawhide repository, and files in CVS of the "devel" branch being replaced with an empty "dead.package" file. At a later date if a Fedora package developer wishes to revive a dead package they may do so by claiming ownership in pkgdb then requesting the koji block to be removed. It is however a bit easier if ownership is claimed prior to orphan removal, so please claim packages now if possible. IMPORTANT NOTE: These removals do not effect prior releases, including and up to Fedora 8. Please send any questions to fedora-devel-list. Thank you, Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Fedora-devel-announce mailing list Fedora-devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
