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