On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:57:25AM +0200, Sergey Rudchenko wrote:
On 01/28/2010 03:03 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Taking ownership of an orphan on the devel collection will prevent them
> from being blocked. Remember, it is OK to let software die. Don't view
> this as a list of things that somebody should pick up if they have the
> spare time. Things should only be revived if there are actual users in
> need of the software.
How hard it will be to resurrect any of these if someone needs? Does
that mean packaging from scratch?
The procedure is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#...
For many of these it will mean a re-review but not from scratch; the old
spec files and patches remain in the revision history on the cvs server.
-Toshio