Am Dienstag, den 11.05.2010, 17:47 +0800 schrieb Chen Lei:
2010/5/11 Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com>
Hi
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugs/quake3
Quake 3 engine needs to be updated. The current version has
security
issues and breaks multiplayer in a couple of Quake3 based
games such as
OpenArena. The maintainer has not responded in bugzilla since
March and
has not responded to private email either. I would like to
invoke the
fast track process. Meanwhile, I will be much obliged if
someone
updates Quake 3 to the latest version available and push out
updates for
Fedora 13 and 12.
It seems a lot of trivial packages in fedora are unmaintained for a
long time, even those maintainers may still be active in fedora
community. Maybe setting up an automatic orphan policy combining with
a package QA page is necessary now.
A big +1!
Gentoo has the same [1]:
"Any developer suspected to be inactive for a period in excess of 60
days may be subject to retirement. Developer Relations will first
research and assess the situation, attempt to contact the developer, or
if attempts are unsuccessful may chose to retire the developer. Please
note that if you are in devaway for more than 60 days, you may also be
considered inactive, however, return dates will be taken into
consideration. If you are retired due to inactivity and wish to return,
you need only contact Recruiters to begin the recruitment process again.
"
[1]
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=3