On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 17:28 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I just completed the first run of FESCo's newly approved Inactive
> Packager Policy[1]. Packagers that have been identified as inactive
> have a ticket in the find-inactive-packagers repo[2]. One week after
> the F37 final release, packagers who remain inactive will be removed
> from the packager group. (Note that pagure.io is one of the systems
> checked for activity, so commenting on your ticket that you're still
> around will prevent you from showing up in the second round.)
So, I have a probably-controversial idea for a follow-up on this.
I'll add one more idea/loophole to consider closing. I am a member of the packager group but no longer maintain any packages. I am active enough in other ways to not be noticed by this policy. I don't think that is right.
I have submitted a ticket to voluntarily give up my packager rights under this policy. However, we should probably verify that a packager actually has at least one package or is a proven packager as a part of this policy. I realize that it is very hard to know how long someone has not had any packages, so this could result in a request to validate to a person who is temporarily without a package during the period when the script is run, however I think this is a reasonable edge case to resolve manually.
regards,
bex
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