Help wanted: Orphan master

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Feb 26 22:02:49 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 09:16 +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
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> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Just like previous releases, we will be purging orphans from rawhide
> > before the feature freeze.  This prevents cruft from making it into the
> > next release and needing to be maintained for the life of the next
> > release.
> > 
> > This cycle, Warren has asked that releng find another party to manage
> > the Orphanarium purging.  This requires somebody to query the various
> > tools to discover which packages are orphaned, but not blocked in our
> > development tag (dist-f11) and to post the lists so that people can take
> > ownership or let them die.  After a short window, the list will be
> > delivered to releng for blocking in Koji.
> > 
> > Would any of you like to help releng with this task?
> > 
> > 
> I can do that.

Have you made any progress on this?


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Jesse Keating
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