On 02/26/2015 09:31 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
>>> If no volunteer shows up for maintenance of old JDK then
it would be
>>> deprecated and obsoleted, as it's was done with previous JDK packages.
>>
>> How would that work _exactly_?
>
> 1) JDK maintainers announce deprecation in advance and call for
> volunteers to maintain old JDK
>
> 2) when the time of deprecation comes, JDK package is reassigned to new
> maintainer, if such showed up; no obsoletes are added
We speak about people that are already Fedora packagers, right? Just sponsoring someone
that showed up and let him/her maintain legacy JDK in Fedora is recipe for disaster.
Either could work, but new packagers would need to find a sponsor.
I would have no problem sponsoring someone that shows involvement in
Fedora and has good knowledge about JDK internals, for example OpenJDK
upstream developer.
For not-yet-packagers they would have to go through the full
review-sponsoring process.
No package review is necessary to sponsor new packager.
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Mikolaj Izdebski
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