Hello, Benjamin. On Thursday, 02 June 2016 at 09:41, Benjamin Lefoul wrote: > Hi, > > So this packager Bernard Johnson (bjohnson) disappeared and his email > (bjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx) is dead. [...] > 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. That is one of the best reasons to become the maintainer of a package. I'd suggest reading up on how to become Fedora packager: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group > 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)? We have this policy in place: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
