On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 06:39:17PM +0100, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, at 6:35 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> Good Morning everyone,
>
> Some of the folks in the Fedora infrastructure team met up just before
> devconf.cz in January and went quickly through "the state of apps".
> One app that appears to be currently broken is fedora-tagger [1].
> Basically it is still listening for new packages being added to pkgdb, which
> means it's outdated for all packages since pkgdb has been deprecated.
Where, other than tagger, is this data used?
I believe fedora-packages uses it but it would be easy to carve out.
> From the Fedora Infrastructure's perspective, we don't
want to invest time to
> maintain this app. We have other tasks that we want to prioritize.
> However, the app itself is still running quite fine and is low maintenance.
> So if some people were interested in keeping it alive we can make it happen.
> But we're not the ones who are going to do it.
Are you all commiting to getting the project into functional shape, or just transferring
it in the broken state?
We're transferring it as is and offering support to get it fixed. We're not
going to fix it so if no one else is interested in fixing it, we'll deprecate
it.
Pierre