Re: our manual un-orphaning process

[Kevin Fenzi]

On 09/08/2018 02:27 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  the manual un-orphaning process with rel-eng tickets is wasting
>  maintainer and rel-eng time and is very noisy (e.g. if more than one
>  person requests the package at the same time). With the upcoming
>  inevitable mass orphaning because of FTBFS and security bugs, the
>  this is going to be quite painful.
>  
>  Is there any hope to automatize this? Allowing this to be done
>  through pagure would be great. I know this has been discussed before,
>  but I can't find any open issue.
>  
>  Alternatively, we could extend fedpkg with something like
>  'fedpkg take-over-package' that would automatically open a releng
>  ticket allowing for semi-automatic processing by rel-eng.
>  
>  What's the situation here? 
I'd love to see src.fedoraproject.org just allow a 'take point of
contact' button for logged in packager group users. Of course it would
have to know retired vs just orphaned. I'm not sure how practical this
would be, but we can see what Pingou says.

I don't see any reason for more red-tape on taking orphans...

kevin