Quake3 security issue and non-responsive maintainer: Xavier Lamien

[Rakesh Pandit]

On 15 May 2010 21:07, Till Maas wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:19:50AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:26:53PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> > What we have is the orphaning (a proactive process) and awol
>> > maintainer processes (a reactive process).. we don't have an automated
>> > process that helps us identify potentially unmaintained packages to be
>> > concerned about.
>>
>> Well, we do have two more: fever which sends emails when packages have
>> newer upstream releases, and my own FTBFS runs (which I stopped for
>> F13 after it branched; I'll restart that for rawhide when F13 is
>> released).
>
> The upstream release monitoring tool (formerly fever) is not really used
> to identify such packages, because there is no process to identify
> non-uptodate packages like there is a process to identify old FTBS-bugs.
>

Yes, and I think it is time to draft a proposal for same. Remember
Seth also had a script (which he ran quite recently to figure our
concerned packages).

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