Hello all,
I would like to submit a change proposal for the unresponsive
package maintainer policy.
The policy now says [1] "File a bug against the package in
Bugzilla asking for the maintainer to respond. This bug should
list the outstanding issues they need to address. This is a must."
I think this kind of bug should not be filled against the single
package, but something like against infrastructure. Also it should
block all bugs assigned to that user.
This can be useful if a user maintains several packages. This way
all bugs receive a notification that the "unresponsive package
maintainer" policy was started for that maintainer.
For an example, I've just opened such a bug [2] for boinc-client
maintainer that owns several other packages with open bugs and no
activity since May.
What do you think about my proposal?
Mattia
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_policy
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039258