Thorsten Leemhuis schrieb: > Gianluca Sforna schrieb: >> On 9/19/06, Robert Scheck <fedora-extras-list.listman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Gianluca Sforna wrote: >>>> I think you just have to follow the guidelines here: >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers >>> why just wait another three weeks (!) when the maintainer already had three >>> weeks time after the initial reminder for the mass rebuild? >> Because rules are rules? > > IMHO: No. No. No. > > Getting stuff done is the most important thing. Rules help organizing > "getting stuff done" when a large number of people work together. But > let's not stick to them blindly just because there are rules. We should > consider most of our rules (not all!) more as guidelines IMHO and we > should adjust them quickly if needed. > >>> Original maintainer didn't build the package until now, so I really would >>> like to take it soon. I talked with Thorsten resulting in when there's no >>> real complaining by the folks here, taking should work... >> If someone from the upper spheres (a.k.a. Thorsten) agrees with you >> short-circuiting the policy, that's fine also for me. > > Well, we didn't talk about this case explicit in FESCo IIRC. But my 2 > cents on the whole issue: > > A kind of AWOL process indirectly was started when the mass rebuild was > announced (that was more then three weeks ago). If maintainers didn't > showe up to rebuild their stuff -> packages considered mostly orphaned > (at least *if* the packager didn't rebuild one of his packages and seems > to be AWOL by common sense -- e.g. no other commits in the past weeks, > no posts on this mailing list and stuff like that). Other people should > be able to take over the packages quickly now in time to get the tree in > shape before FC6. E.g. announce it in the wiki and on the list that you > want to take over a package, wait two or three days, recheck if packager > is still AWOL, take it over. s/take it over/& as comaintainer for some weeks before you take it over completely/ > If the packager shows up again in the next > weeks -> give him his package back. > > Just to be sure: That just my opinion. But I'd say if the other > FESCo-Members agree with this or a slightly adjusted variant of above > scheme let's just start using it. > > CU > thl > -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
