Daily package ownership changes?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/15/2013 02:12 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> To play the devil's advocate a bit, if we automate it without requiring announce
> we end up without any additional info about reasons why package was orphaned.

This is a easily solvable problem.  pkgdb can just require the 
maintainer to specify the reason for orphaning and the report can 
collect that info and post it here There are lots of things we could 
improve by just making reports more widely available automatically and 
some requires more tooling and we are doing a fairly poor job currently.

1) review reports - was absent for a long time and is now being done 
manually
2) e-v-r problems  - sporadic reports
3) reports on source url which don't work - havent been done in a llong 
time afaik and needs to be automated and way to silence them in known 
cases in a per package way (by checking in a file into the git repo for 
that package for instance)
4) rpmlint reports could be collected in a central location and per 
package way to silence irrelevant warnings/errors could be added. refer 
to debian lintian site for some examples
5) update to new upstream versions in Rawhide - a tool could do bump the 
spec,  do scratch builds automatically of newer versions, if that works  
ask the maintainer to apply a diff after reviewing the changes.
6) abi bumps could trigger rebuilds as needed automatically by the 
buildsystem. Several distributions including Mageia, Mandriva, openSUSE 
has been doing this for ages already
7) spec file changelog vs git changelog could be automated and has been 
discussed multiple times here and again done by multiple distributions
8) koji web ui needs to be improved significantly or dropped/replaced 
with something that provides more functionality
9) reports highlighting unfixed security issues
10) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring should 
ideally be done for *all* packages and maintainers should be able to opt 
in for notification or see it in a web UI as per their choice
11) automatic period rebuilds in rawhide to highlight FTBFS issues 
aren't done as often anymore
12) file dependencies can be checked to make sure they are sane

I could go on but you get the general idea

Rahul