Orphaning package

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Sun Apr 27 10:07:24 UTC 2008


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 05:02:10PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=139695
> 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238070
> 
> Yeah. ;( No response from maintainer... 
> 
> - We need to work harder to spot where maintainers need assistance and
> are not answering their bugs. Triage folks may be able to help there. 

The last triaging was, in my opinion, a step in the other direction.
Indeed, some bugs that were lacking reporter action were closed which is
right. But bugs that were lacking packager action were closed too, which
is bad. Instead it should have been investigated why the packager didn't
fix the bug if one would have wanted to know which packager needed
assistance and didn't answered their bugs.

> - We need to work harder to identify easyfix bugs and get a group of
> people able to go in and just fix them.

It is right for easyfix bugs that a packager agreed to have fixed, but
it won't help for easyfix when fix is already proposed by the reporter
(or help is already proposed) and packager is silent. Reporter can ping
himself, no need for a group of people to do this.

> - Finally (and just speaking for myself), I would like to stress that I
> am happy to listen to concerns or problems and try and get solutions to
> happen. At every FESCo irc meeting there is a 'free discussion' period
> at the end. On every FESCo scheduling post there is a chance to reply
> to the list and bring up issues. Please, let us know where and when
> there are problems so we can try and find some solution. 

I have reported these issues already at this exact place in february:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-February/msg00355.html

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Pat




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