<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>I have a question about the unresponsive mantainer policy [1].<br><br></div><div>What is the procedure to follow if a mantainer is kindly responding to personal emails and granting access (really rarely) but is not giving ownership of the packages even after years of inactivity?<br>
<br></div>I've been working mostly alone on the bacula [2] and bacula-docs [3] package for the past years; reassigning myself to bugs etc. Fortunately now there is also personnel from Redhat working on it.<br>
<br><div></div><div>So far there has been almost no activity in his packages since 2009 except for a few items like the fedora_active_user.py script shows:<br><br>$ ./fedora_active_user.py --user ixs --all-comments<br>FAS password for slaanesh: <br>
Last login in FAS:<br> ixs 2013-01-01<br>Last action on koji:<br> Fri, 11 Jan 2013 package list entry created: ser in f18-final by ausil [still active]<br>Last package update on bodhi:<br> 2012-10-15 16:42:06 on package icecast-2.3.3-1.fc17<br>
<br></div><div>He has bugs open and not taken care of since 2008 (Fedora 9!) [4] [5]; reviews pending [6]; ACLs pending for a lot of packages etc.<br><br>I've addressed personally Andreas Thienemann (FAS: ixs) by mail a couple of
times in the last years; he had been kind and granted me access on the
packages but not ownership; as he has stated on a mail to me the 9th of
January he was supposed to come back with a more active role in Fedora. But so far, there wasn't any activity; at least for the packages I've looked at.<br><br></div><div>What should I do in this case? Just wait or proceed with the unresponsive mantainer policy?<br>
<br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>--Simone<br></div><div><br><br>[1] <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_policy#What_to_do_if_a_maintainer_is_absent" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_policy#What_to_do_if_a_maintainer_is_absent</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/bacula.git/stats/?period=q&ofs=10" target="_blank">http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/bacula.git/stats/?period=q&ofs=10</a><br>[3] <a href="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/bacula-docs.git/stats/?period=q&ofs=10" target="_blank">http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/bacula-docs.git/stats/?period=q&ofs=10</a><br clear="all">
<div><div>[4] <span title="andreas@bawue.net"></span><a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=andreas%40bawue.net%20&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&list_id=1364294&query_format=advanced&order=changeddate%2Cbug_id&query_based_on=">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=andreas%40bawue.net%20&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&list_id=1364294&query_format=advanced&order=changeddate%2Cbug_id&query_based_on=</a><br>
[5] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460557">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460557</a><br>[6] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472098">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472098</a><br>
<br>-- <br>You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore (R. W. Emerson).<br>
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