Dne 22.11.2011 18:55, Jason L Tibbitts III napsal(a):
>>>>> "VO" == Vít
Ondruch<vondruch(a)redhat.com> writes:
VO> It would be reasonable, on the beginning of each development cycle,
VO> to publish a list of packages which were not touched by it
VO> maintainer in previous release.
I certainly hope you realize that there are very many packages in the
distribution that simply do not need to be touched by the maintainer all
that often. Many packages will have seen no upstream changes at all for
quite some time and unless we do a mass rebuild or make changes to the
packaging guidelines which require updates, there is simply no need to
pointlessly waste time messing with packages just to avoid appearing on
some "potentially horrible maintainers" list.
- J<
Yes, I realize that there are many packages that does not need to be
touched and my proposal does not mean they will be. However, speaking
about mass rebuild, it is interesting that there are still some packages
from F14 and older Fedora releases. That is sign that these packages are
un-maintained and they are FTBFS. Otherwise I have no other explanation
how they survived the F15 mass rebuild. If there would be easier way how
to get the maintainer ACLs, may be somebody would pick them up.
Generally this proposal is as gentle to current maintainers and owners
as it could be. And it is aimed to get more people involved. I thought
that it would be easier acceptable for some of the maintainers then mass
orphaning (which is my favorite), but sadly, I was wrong. Status quo is
better it seems.
Vit