non responsive policy with invalid mail

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:09:34PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2008 14:41:22 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > If there is no known way of contacting the former maintainer, or he is not
> > willing to make the required change in the packagedb, one should directly
> > jump to the mail of the formal request to orphan all the packager packages
> > to  fedora-devel-list.
> 
> What about the case where someone was terminated (which was not the case that 
> precipitated this thread)? Perhaps in that case the maintainer doesn't want 
> the whole world to know. How is that taken into account with this policy? I 
> think there are times when we have to respect that and have the ability to 
> replace maintainers without shouting to the world.

There is no reason to give for stopping being a maintainer in fedora.
Everything regarding maintainership (inactivity, mail not reaching
anymore) is public anyway. As a side note, I am not saying that this
policy should be applied to people @redhat, but for other fedora
contributors there is a need for a policy like this one, and things have
to be public.

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Pat