Am Sonntag, den 26.02.2006, 20:21 +0100 schrieb Aurelien Bompard: >[...] > > So, how to proceed? Bug the maintainers with a E-Mail directly? Probably > > a good idea. I'll try to write a script that does this. > This is the best idea at the moment IMHO.[...] > Anyway, a direct mail reminder will probably help a lot. Done some minutes ago (sorry, I didn't find time for it earlier); Initial results: Keith G. Robertson-Turner: "This account is protected against spam, using the SpamArrest service, which is a 'C/R' or 'Challenge/Response' service. [...]" /me wonders if Keith was wise enough to whitelist the E-Mail address used by bugzilla.redhat.com. Keith? aaron.bennett_AT_olin.edu -- "Delivery failed." colin_AT_fedoraproject.org -- "User unknown" lemenkov@xxxxxxxxxx -- "User unknown" :-(( :-(( /me wonders how many of the other mail addresses from owners.list don't work but chooses to simply ignore that for now. >[...] > > And I suspect that some others from those 43 maintainers probably should > > face that they have a lot of other, more important work to do and should > > probably orphan their packages so that other interested people can take > > them over. > Maybe automatically orphan the packages if they are not rebuilt for the 6th > of Mars ? (date of "Absolute devel freeze")? Opinions on that? > > Suggestions how to solve this whole mess in the short and in the long > > term welcome. > Having not-rebuilt packages being automatically orphaned on test3 of each FC > release seems like a decent long-term solution to me. And opinions on this one? We would also need to force a rebuild of all noarch packages to to make this work efficient. And I suspect that a lot of people don't like that or a "rebuild everything in Extras for each Core release". CU thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list