On Thu 04 Sep 2014 01:35:53 PM CEST Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:38:52AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Johannes Lips wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings, we've been told that the email addresses for two package
> > > maintainers are no longer valid. I'm starting the unresponsive
> > > maintainer policy to find out if they are still interested in
> > > maintaining their packages (and if so, have them update their email
> > > addresses in FAS). If they're not interested in maintaining or we
> > > can't locate them I'll have FESCo orphan the packages so that
others
> > > can take them over.
> > >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > wouldn't it make sense to integrate a check into the processes, when people
> > leave Redhat, that the packages in fedora are properly orphaned or get a
> > new owner?
>
> Why would even someone's employment status matter? Fedora is a community
project.
And much like anyone else, people come and go. The difference is that here, when
they leave, we know about it before emails start to bounce.
Indeed. I have forwarded this thread to colleagues working on processes
when people are leaving RH to make sure we do necessary
checks/cleanups. Note that we don't want to automatically orphan
packages when people from RH leave (that would be rude) since people
actually do work on stuff outside of their work...
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