Ignacio / php-json

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:57:10 -0500, Brandon Holbrook wrote:

> >> I've gone ahead and answered 
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198564 for 
> >> Ignacio's php-json package.  Bumped to latest upstream and successfully 
> >> built. 
> >>     
> >
> > Important: I've excluded the results of this build job from the next push.
> >
> > If you read the bug report, the reporter mentions that Ignacio has
> > published a working/newer version for FC5. Your changes to the devel
> > branch in CVS differ from Ignacio's FC-5 version. Further, you mention
> > a "New Maintainer" in the %changelog, which is not official yet for
> > this package, is it? I'd like to see the following policy in action
> >
> >   
> ...I guess I'm a little confused here.  The bug reports mentions nothing 
> about a working version for FC5, only that a working version of 1.2.1 is 
> in FEdevel 

I mixed FC5 and devel in above paragraph. :)  Ignacio has had the newer
version in devel already, but the one you committed and built for FC5
is not his but the modified one.

Even if it may be a trivial upgrade, the thing I'm interested in is
whether we do have an active policy for "AWOL maintainers" or not? If the
policy is considered a burden, too insufficient, we should change it.

> >   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers

> Which is why I asked if we were ready for the takeover process, rather 
> than assuming so.  When somebody suggested that we start taking bug 
> reports, I though that might mean we had jumped to the package takeover, 
> so I asked for clarification.

Well, asking for clarification and modifying CVS/submitting build jobs are
two entirely different things. Whether "to jump" should remain FESCo's
decision, IMO.

Has anybody tracked in bugzilla the contact attempts that have been made
in order to reach Ignacio?