package submission take over question.

[Hans de Goede]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 17:26 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Michael J. Knox wrote:
>>> Hey all.
>>>
>>> I started the review of a package, but sadly the submitter seems to have
>>> vanished. Nearly 3 months has passed and I have decided that I will
>>> submit this package instead.
>>>
>>> Now... best practice question.
>>>
>>> Should I close the review and open a new one?
>> IMO, bingo.
> 
> That's what I did with milter-regex when the same situation happened
> there:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173522
> 
> Paul.
> 

I've had (as reviewer) a similar issue and solved it by just recycling
the review ticket with the new submitter. I believe closing it and
opening a new one is better though.

We should document this somewhere, as it seems this happens more then once.

Regards,

hans