How did I end up as the package owner for emacs?

[Jonathan Underwood]

Hi,

Sometime in the past few weeks I've ended up as the package owner for
emacs, without actually requesting it. I've previously been a
co-maintainer (i.e. watchbugzilla, watchcommits, commit, approveacls),
but haven't requested package ownership at any point, so I'm wondering
what turn of events brought this about, and whether it's a bug with
the pkgdb. If a package is orphaned by its owner, does the next person
with commit access become the package owner or something like that? If
so, I think that needs a bit more thinking. I'm not really grumbling
about become the package owner (though I'm not sure I have enough
knowledge of emacs internals to take on that role), though I am
genuinely confused as to how this happened. Unfortunately the emacs
package does seem to get bumped around various RH employees - it'd be
nice if there was a bit more communication about this when it happens.

Cheers,
Jonathan.

[Karel Klic]

Hi Jonathan,

you became the owner in the pkgdb when Daniel Novotny and I agreed to 
transfer the package ownership to me. We discovered that the next person 
with commit access become the owner when a package is orphaned, and the 
package owner cannot be changed in pkgdb. I asked about the solution on 
IRC, and when I got no answer I postponed it. From my point of view it 
is not important who is the owner when I can fix bugs and commit changes.

I apologize to you for not sending an email about the change, that would 
have been be the right thing.

Nonetheless, I am also interested in how to change the owner to certain 
person from the list of package maintainers.

Best regards,
Karel

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  Sometime in the past few weeks I've ended up as the package owner for
>  emacs, without actually requesting it. I've previously been a
>  co-maintainer (i.e. watchbugzilla, watchcommits, commit, approveacls),
>  but haven't requested package ownership at any point, so I'm wondering
>  what turn of events brought this about, and whether it's a bug with
>  the pkgdb. If a package is orphaned by its owner, does the next person
>  with commit access become the package owner or something like that? If
>  so, I think that needs a bit more thinking. I'm not really grumbling
>  about become the package owner (though I'm not sure I have enough
>  knowledge of emacs internals to take on that role), though I am
>  genuinely confused as to how this happened. Unfortunately the emacs
>  package does seem to get bumped around various RH employees - it'd be
>  nice if there was a bit more communication about this when it happens.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Jonathan.
>

[Jonathan Underwood]

2010/1/3 Karel Klic <kklic(a)redhat.com&gt;:
>  Hi Jonathan,
>
>  you became the owner in the pkgdb when Daniel Novotny and I agreed to
>  transfer the package ownership to me. We discovered that the next person
>  with commit access become the owner when a package is orphaned, and the
>  package owner cannot be changed in pkgdb. I asked about the solution on IRC,
>  and when I got no answer I postponed it. From my point of view it is not
>  important who is the owner when I can fix bugs and commit changes.
>
>  I apologize to you for not sending an email about the change, that would
>  have been be the right thing.
>
>  Nonetheless, I am also interested in how to change the owner to certain
>  person from the list of package maintainers. 
Hi Karel,

Aha - thanks for explaining what happened. I just tried releasing
package ownership using the pkgdb web interface, but that doesn't seem
to work... will continue to investigate.

J.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 22:53:26 +0100,
  Karel Klic <kklic(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  Nonetheless, I am also interested in how to change the owner to
>  certain person from the list of package maintainers. 
I think the right way to fix this is to file a ticket with infrastructure.

[Till Maas]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:53:26PM +0100, Karel Klic wrote:

>  you became the owner in the pkgdb when Daniel Novotny and I agreed to
>  
>  transfer the package ownership to me. We discovered that the next person  
>  with commit access become the owner when a package is orphaned, and the  
>  package owner cannot be changed in pkgdb. I asked about the solution on  
>  IRC, and when I got no answer I postponed it. From my point of view it  
>  is not important who is the owner when I can fix bugs and commit changes. 
Here is an but report about this, so hopefully this will be fixed
eventually:

https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/ticket/152

Regards
Till