On 03/02/2017 01:43 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/01/2017 09:23 PM, opensource(a)till.name wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they
>>> are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know for
>>> sure
>>> that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper
>>> reason:
>>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to request a package owned by somebody else to be retired?
>>
>> I am asking, because during the recent mass rebuilt, a larger number
>> packages have been rebuilt, whose maintainers are known to have left
>> Fedora
>> or apparently do not seem/do not seem to be able to care about their
>> packages.
>
>
> We have nothing in place other than to start the non-active maintainer
> process for all of them.
That's, what I feared ;)
And I also fear, this AWOL process doesn't work, because I have seen
packages in the mass-rebuilt, owned by persons, of whom I am pretty sure
went through the AWOL-ticket process at FESCO.
Ralf
Can you give us a list of these? It will be easier to track down what
is going on. Personally I would like to have a "sign of life" renewal
to Fedora accounts to try and track this down but people have said
that is too much bureaucracy.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.