On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 10:05:40PM +0200, Maxwell G via epel-devel wrote:
> We could create an issue tracker for this. Packagers would have to
> submit a ticket requesting to orphan a certain package's EPEL branch(es)
> and set the EPEL Bugzilla assignee to "orphan" if they're orphaning all
> active EPEL branches. epel-devel@ could be CC'd on all issues. Then, we
> could have a provenpackager in the SIG go through and manually retire
> the packages that haven't been picked up after six weeks. The later will
> be difficult if we have a large volume, but I don't expect that. We
> could script this if necessary or just ask the submitter to do it
> themself.
>
> This doesn't allow picking up packages in a self-service manner, but I
> don't think that's a huge deal for our case.
After some discussion in our weekly EPEL Steering Committee meeting Maxwell's idea seems to lead the way.
Maxwell has setup of pagure repo, to track these orphan issues.
A pagure repo gives us the opportunity to have a nice README that people can see if they are unsure of the process.
A pagure issue also seems more user friendly than a bugzilla. Both for the person creating the issue, and for others tracking it.
The policy isn't setup yet, but we are moving in the right direction.
Troy