Hi! Some relevant parts (a lot of lines were stripped) from the last FESCo-Meeting: > 19:57 < bpepple> | Has anyone been able to get a hold of Ignacio? And if not should we expedite the AWOL/maintainership of his packages? > 19:59 < bpepple> | As far as I can tell, no once's been able to contact him. > 19:59 < dgilmore> | thl: if no one could get hold of him i say mark all his packages as orphaned and ask memebers in the comminity to pick them up if they have intrest > 19:59 < thl> | dgilmore, I'd like to leave the option open that he get's his packages back if he shows up later > 20:00 < tibbs> | co-maintainership will always leave that avenue open. > 20:00 < warren> | thl, we just make it known that if he wants to come back he's welcome to. But meanwhile we must do our best to make sure thing are maintained. > 20:02 < scop> | if Ignacio reappears, FWIW I think it's the new maintainer's call whether he wants to hand the packages back, co-maintain, or neither > 20:03 < abadger1999> | with com-maintainership in mind, should we put ignacio's email into the CC field of owners.list? As FC6 is approaching and Ignacio seems to be AWOL for a long time now we'll speed up the AWOL process. In other words: All of Ignacio's packages are hereby considered orphaned. It's sad to lose such a major contributor, but we can't avoid it any longer. I added all of his 52 packages to a separate section on http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages Here's the list: alltray deskbar-applet ecore edb edje eet embryo evas f2py fltk fyre ghasher gnet2 gnome-applet-music gnome-applet-rhythmbox gnome-theme-clearlooks gnome-theme-clearlooks-bigpack gpredict hamlib leafpad libifp libosip libosip2 libsexy linphone lock-keys-applet mimetex MochiKit mod_auth_pam moodle nautilus-search-tool notecase numpy OpenEXR ortp pam_mysql php-json pyparsing python-amara python-cpio python-formencode python-HTMLgen python-json python-nose python-sqlobject python-TestGears repoml soundconverter sqlite sqlite2 TurboGears wp_tray The usual process for orphan packages that's described on above wiki-page applies mostly now. Mostly: We should try to sort this out quickly to not disturb the current mass-rebuild to much. And postings to f-e-l with "I'd like to take package foo" could soon end in a real mess. So I propose this scheme: If you want to take over one of Ignacio's packages add your name to above list in the wiki at the proper place. If no one else volunteered to take over that package until next Sunday, 23:59 UTC take it over with the usual process (change owners.list, move bugs over, ...). If there are multiple volunteers for a package at that time please sort it out in private (or on the list if it can't be avoided) who will act as primary maintainer in the future. If we can't avoid it I'll act as a mediator between interested parties. I'd like to get this done as far as possible until September the 7th before the FESCo meeting (17:00 UTC). Please keep ignacio's email into the CC field of owners.list when you take over a package. We still hope that he joins us again. If that happens please consider to give him his packages back if he shows interest in them again. Did I miss anything? Hope not. CU thl -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
