----- Original Message -----
From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)gmail.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:34:50 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...
On 11/22/2011 12:49 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> Hmm, haven't this started with if you're not ready to reply to
> every bugreport we will ban you because we don't want your
> contribution?
If you are referring to
"
Well if people want more controversial proposal of sign of live
that's
relatively easier to accomplish.
Revoke that maintainers package privileges for $next-release if he
does
not respond to bug reports in timely manner in GA releases and orphan
his package.
Arguable a bit drasting but at the same time far more effective clean
up
process. "
It says in timely manner...
As I have said before the problem here is not active contributors but
the inactive/non responsive ones so the cleanup process needs to
identify and handle those and what's the best way to do that.
The problem here is that in my eyes there are no inactive contributors and
there shouldn't be anything preventing people from contributing (even if it's one
update per year).
While I agree that projects that FTBFS, can't be installed and etc. should be purged
every release, everything
else should be out of question because the fact that someone considers something legacy
doesn't mean that it's not usable for others. And to make it clear handling bugs
is not a measure at all about activity.
So if you come with a technical list of things that make sure that a package is unusable
for 100%(e.g. can't be installed because of missing dependency) of the users
it's not a question that it should be removed, but if there is someone that signed as
a maintainer and
there is even a slight possibility that someone can use nothing more can be required from
the maintainer.
Note the usage of required, all kind of suggestions can be made and people can do
additional work but everyone should do as much as he can/want/have fun to do.
Alex
But somehow the thread winded up in the never ending debate of
reporter
vs maintainer which in the end both parties need work on improving
and
both parts are valuable contributors to the project.
JBG
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