Orphaning xerces-c

[Peter Lemenkov]

Hello All!
I'm no longer using Xerces-C, so I believe, I can't maintain it
anymore. Feel free to pick it up. Any volunteers?

[Lubomir Rintel]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:15 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All!
> I'm no longer using Xerces-C, so I believe, I can't maintain it
> anymore. Feel free to pick it up. Any volunteers?

I use it with VirtualBox-OSE (thanks to Xavier for pointing me here). I
won't mind picking the package up.

[Peter Lemenkov]

Hello!

2010/1/25 Lubomir Rintel :
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:15 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> > Hello All!
> > I'm no longer using Xerces-C, so I believe, I can't maintain it
> > anymore. Feel free to pick it up. Any volunteers?
>
> I use it with VirtualBox-OSE (thanks to Xavier for pointing me here). I
> won't mind picking the package up.

Great.
Unfortunately, I've got difficulties while releasing ownership (
https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/ticket/173 ).

[Lubomir Rintel]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:54 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> 2010/1/25 Lubomir Rintel :
> > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:15 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> > > Hello All!
> > > I'm no longer using Xerces-C, so I believe, I can't maintain it
> > > anymore. Feel free to pick it up. Any volunteers?
> >
> > I use it with VirtualBox-OSE (thanks to Xavier for pointing me here). I
> > won't mind picking the package up.
>
> Great.
> Unfortunately, I've got difficulties while releasing ownership (
> https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/ticket/173 ).

I've seen that once too; I believe it's supposed to be a feature that
reassigns the package to another maintainer when he releases ownership
instead of orphaning, though looks a bit broken.

Looking at the pkgdb page of the package it seems like xavierb is a
maintainer (well, has approveacls powers) as well. Are you sure you want
another maintainer and not just hand the package to xavierb?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:17:05PM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I've got difficulties while releasing ownership (
> > https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/ticket/173 ).
>
> I've seen that once too; I believe it's supposed to be a feature that
> reassigns the package to another maintainer when he releases ownership
> instead of orphaning, though looks a bit broken.

It should never be done automatically.

--
Pat

[Peter Lemenkov]

2010/1/25 Lubomir Rintel :
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:54 +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Unfortunately, I've got difficulties while releasing ownership (
> > https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/ticket/173 ).
> I've seen that once too; I believe it's supposed to be a feature that
> reassigns the package to another maintainer when he releases ownership
> instead of orphaning, though looks a bit broken.

Seems that things are getting even worse. I found the only way to
completely resign from the maintainership of xerces-c - by pressing
the "Retire Package" button. And now the package has "Deprecated"
status and no other buttons are active.

[Kevin Kofler]

Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Seems that things are getting even worse. I found the only way to
> completely resign from the maintainership of xerces-c - by pressing
> the "Retire Package" button. And now the package has "Deprecated"
> status and no other buttons are active.

"Retire package" is for when you want to completely remove a package from 
the distribution, it was the "big red button" you were not supposed to hit. 
Now only a cvsadmin can fix your mess. But you'd have needed an admin anyway 
to reassign ownership directly and thus bypass this "automatically reassign 
to the comaintainer" "feature".

Kevin Kofler

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Sorry for the empty message  I was going to say:

I've changed the pkg owner to jonathanrobie as per the message earlier in
this thread.  I was going to look into the bug that's at the root of this
yesterday but too many other projects came up so I didn't get around to it.
Looking at that today.

-Toshio