Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) said:
With nobody handling the incoming bugzilla tickets. With some bug reports having been killed in an automated way at dist EOL. And worse if it turns out that packages which do build are unmaintained nevertheless, with the same symptoms in bugzilla and in package scm.
We could easily create a new class of bugzilla ticket, say "MAINTAINED". An automated process would generate such tickets, blocking F13MAINTAINED. The ticket would ask the maintainer to close the ticket to remain the owner of the package. Tickets still open after $SOMEDELAY would be candidates for orphan or non-responsive maintainer process. Repeat at $SOMEINTERVAL, perhaps once per release cycle (more would be too onerous I think).
Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this for packages that appear via some criteria (have not been built, have not been committed to, have lots of bugs with no response, etc.), but doing it for *every* package seems like overkill.
Bill