On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 07:41:31 +0000 Benjamin Lefoul <benjamin.lefoul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > So this packager Bernard Johnson (bjohnson) disappeared and his > email (bjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx) is dead. "Symetrix.com" is unmaintained > and the company listed in the whois "Symetrix Consulting" is nowhere > to be found in the US (where bjohnson says he's located in FAS). The > company behind "symetrixconsulting.com" seems unrelated and located > in India. The company behind "symetrix.co" told me they have no > employee by that name. > > So what happens in this case? > > I am interested in taking over the BackupPC package which needs a > simple fix in EPEL7 (no one upstream seems to care about the Fedora > packaging, but my company needs it). I would need a sponsor too. > > But again: what happens when a packager goes dark before orphaning or > retiring her packages? Has this been seriously discussed? What if > they get seriously ill or worse (the Fedora project is now > sufficiently big and old that statistically, this could happen)? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers Dan -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
