AWOL owners and stale packages.

Michael J. Knox michael at knox.net.nz
Wed Jun 14 20:01:58 UTC 2006


Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>>How about something like: - When someone sees that a maintainer
>>>isn't answering their bugs, not answering rebuild requests, emails
>>>or the like, they file a bug against the package in bugzilla asking
>>>for the maintainer to respond. This bug should list the outstanding
>>>issues they need to address. - After every 7 days, the reporter
>>>adds a comment to the bug asking again for response. Others can add
>>>to the bug that they also were not successfull in contacting the
>>>maintainer, or providing additional contact information for the
>>>maintainer (ie, alternative email, irc, etc). - After 2 attempts (2
>>>weeks) of no response from the maintainer, the reporter posts to
>>>the fedora-extras list with a url to the bug report and asks if
>>>anyone knows how to contact the maintainer. - After another 7 days
>>>(now 3 weeks total), the reporter posts to the extras list with the
>>>bug link and indicates that all attempts to contact the maintainer
>>>have failed and that they wish to take over the
>>>package. Additionally we could require the former maintainers
>>>sponsor to sign off on the change.  I think the bug is important to
>>>be able to track things, and the maintainer should follow email
>>>from bugzilla for their packages anyhow.
> 
> 
> Michael> That's exactly how I foresee the process, but probably a 4
> Michael> week wait.
> 
> Yeah, that would be fine I would think too. 
> 
> Michael> I am not sure the reasoning for having the previous sponsor
> Michael> resign off on the package when it should be required that the
> Michael> NMU be done onl by existing FE developers.
> 
> Well, I was thinking about the case with a non packager submitting to
> take over a package (ie, it's their first package). Thats probibly
> extra complication and we should just say for now that the person
> trying to take over maintainership is already an existing maintainer
> for at least one other package. 
> 
> Do you want to submit this plan to FESCo for approval? 
> We should get something in place soon IMHO. 

Hello Kevin,

Yeah, I will draft it and send it too the FESCo guys too mull over.

Michael




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