Re: Mass rebuild of Extras packages for FC6?

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

Jonathan Underwood schrieb:
> On 01/07/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info> wrote:
[...]
>> 4) make sure all packagers/contributors are still around just a we did
>> during the mass-rebuild for FC5
[...]
> As a side effect of a mass rebuild for reasons 1-3 though,
> it's a nice bonus.

Yes.

> I suppose this points to a need to have some
> automated way of verifying that package maintainers are still around.

There is some progress in this direction -- see the thread "AWOL owners
and stale packages." on this list and the plans for the package database
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/PackageDatabase

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