bugzilla triage madness :-/

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 14:55:56 UTC 2008


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 19:28 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>  > Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
>  > > Plague is unmaintained upstream as well.  The only reason it's kept
>  > > around is because we can't build EPEL in Koji, which I hope to have
>  > > fixed this summer.  After that, plague will be removed from the distro
>  > > entirely.  Would that make you feel better?
>  >
>  > What about third-party repositories like rpmfusion? AFAICT, rpmfusion decided
>  > to use Plague. And looking at the current design of the 2 tools, Plague looks
>  > much more appropriate for a third-party repository to me, compared to Koji
>  > which wants to "own" the entire distribution, requiring to import all the base
>  > Fedora packages. Of course, the work to make Koji suitable for EPEL may well
>  > make this a non-issue, but right now it is something to consider.
>
>  Then rpmfusion should take upstream ownership of it.
>

Who is upstream for plague? I know that there are several groups that
are still using it and if its upstream is looking for a new owner..
would probably take it over versus 'forking' it.


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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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