On Friday 06 June 2008 12:01:33 Patrice Dumas wrote:
There is
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Policy/NonResponsiveMainta
iners (and
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/OrphanedPackages
)
> Yes, if you were still wanting to maintain a few of these, it was an
> accident and this would be my fault. I apologize for this. I checked a
> couple security packages that needs work and they had your old redhat
> address. So, I asked for your packages to be released so that we could
> continue working on them.
Why didn't you go through the process outlined in the policy? Is it
because you didn't know about it?
This is not a typical non-responsive maintainer problem. His email account
listed on the package db entry is closed for a fact. So, why follow a
proceedure that will take a few weeks when I know for a fact that I need to
reassign some packages? :)
I suspect the orphaning process should be followed in cases like this - but
before its too late.
-Steve