Hans de Goede wrote:
Warren Togami wrote:
> Fedora Engineering Steering Committee is considering removal of packages
> from rawhide who have been without owners since prior to Fedora 8
> sometime after the next FESCO meeting on November 29th. The Fedora
> Project routinely removes unmaintained packages from future
> distributions in order to responsibly scale the growth of maintenance
> burden with developer resources available within the project.
>
>
http://fedorapeople.org/~wtogami/temp/rawhide-removals.txt
> Packages listed on this page are scheduled for removal unless an
> existing Fedora maintainer claims ownership.
>
>
http://fedorapeople.org/~wtogami/temp/rawhide-removals.txt
> A Fedora package developer may use their Fedora Account in PackageDB to
> claim ownership of an orphaned package.
>
> Removal of an orphaned package entails "blocking" it in the buildsystem
> so it does not appear in the rawhide repository, and files in CVS of the
> "devel" branch being replaced with an empty "dead.package" file.
At a
> later date if a Fedora package developer wishes to revive a dead package
> they may do so by claiming ownership in pkgdb then requesting the koji
> block to be removed. It is however a bit easier if ownership is claimed
> prior to orphan removal, so please claim packages now if possible.
>
Hmm,
I see openct, opencs and pcsc-tools listed, didn't we go through a lot
of effort during FC-6 / F-7 to get smartcard support integrated, isn't
this need to support certain cards / features then?
I'm planning to start working with smartcards sometime soon, and I think
I will need these, but I'm not sure.
Ok,
I've taken ownership of openct, opensc, pcsc-perl and pcsc-tools for now, as I
plan to become a user of them in the near future, and I would hate tro seem
them goaway.
co-maintainers much appreciated. Ville, perhaps you are willing to stay
involved as co-maintainer?
Regards,
Hans