Epiphany effectively orphaned

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed Aug 12 19:27:47 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 12:20 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 15:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 11:29 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > In the course of doing a bug report on Epiphany, it's come up that
> > > Epiphany is effectively orphaned:
> > > 
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/epiphany
> > > 
> > > it is owned by gecko-maint, but since it's now based on Webkit, that
> > > makes no sense, and I see no reason to expect the Gecko maintainers
> > > group to care about Epiphany.
> > > 
> > > It seems like whoever controls the 'gecko-maint' group should formally
> > > orphan Epiphany, and someone else should pick it up.
> > > 
> > > For reference, the bug I was reporting was
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516938 .
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd say you are making stuff up based on a throwaway comment of mine...
> 
> Making what up? How does it make sense for a project that's no longer
> based on Gecko to be maintained by the Gecko maintainers group?

Well, what you said was different, namely that it is not maintained at
all.




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