[releng] Issue #7995: Automate Unretirement and Unorphan procedures

[Mohan Boddu]

mohanboddu reported a new issue against the project: `releng` that you are following:
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* Describe the issue
Currently its a manual process to unretire a package and it is described in
https://docs.pagure.org/releng/sop_unretire.html (unorphan is nothing but assigning the
package to the requestor which is also part of that sop -
https://docs.pagure.org/releng/sop_unretire.html#verify-package-is-not-or...)

It would be great if the process is automated. It cannot be fully automated, but a script
that runs the unretirement rather than running each step manually. 

* When do you need this? (YYYY/MM/DD)
Sooner the better

* When is this no longer needed or useful? (YYYY/MM/DD)
There will be always unretirement requests

* If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact?
Someone has to run the steps manually every time there is a unretirement request.

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[Mat Booth]

mbooth added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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The fact that unorphaning is no longer self service is a huge step backwards -- the new
system should have had feature parity with the old one IMO. 

Adopting a package to keep it maintained is a painful hurdle these days -- the day(s?)
long wait to gain access is a huge discouragement to fixing things.


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[Kevin Fenzi]

kevin added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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I think we need changes in pagure over dist git for this. Have a 'orphan' user
that is special. Users can give packages to orphan and any user (who is in packager) can
take over a package from orphan. There's probibly other ways to do it. 

CC @pingou 
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[Till Maas]

till added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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>  I think we need changes in pagure over dist git for this. Have a
> 'orphan' user that is special. Users can give packages to orphan and any user (who
> is in packager) can take over a package from orphan. There's probibly other ways to do
> it.
>  CC @pingou 
>  
This would be nice but it also needs to check the retirement status of packages.
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[Neal Gompa]

ngompa added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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In Mageia, we have a `nobody` user that is used in this manner. If `nobody` is still
blacklisted in FAS, we should use that user for this.
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[Till Maas]

till added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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>  In Mageia, we have a nobody user that is used in this manner. If
> nobody is still blacklisted in FAS, we should use that user for this.
>  
There is already the orphan user but there is not yet the special behavior that everyone
can adopt the packages.
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[Hans de Goede]

jwrdegoede added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Also see: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2091 which I filed today.

That issue is about steering people who are orphaning packages in the direction of
actively looking to give it to co-maintainers / maintainers of packages which depend on
it, rather then always "giving" the package to the orphan user.

But as the discussion there shows, the conclusion might very well be that we should not
make the person doing the orphaning do more work (introducing a hurdle to orphan
packages), but rather what we want is the old frictionless take over from pkgdb where any
existing packager can just hit a "take over" button on orphaned packages and
then everything happens automatically.

IMHO we need a UI for this at: http://src.fedoraproject.org/ , rather the some
semi-automatic way to process requests from releng issues.
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[Till Maas]

till added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@pingou can we just add a rule to dist-git pagure that when a package is owned by the
orphan user and not all branches are retired, anyone has admin privileges and can
therefore assign the package to themselves?
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[Suzanne Yeghiayan]

syeghiay added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Closing as a duplicate of
https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/fedora-release-tooling/us/998?kan... 
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[Suzanne Yeghiayan]

The status of the issue: `Automate Unretirement and Unorphan procedures` of project:
`releng` has been updated to: Closed as Duplicate by syeghiay.

https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7995

[Mat Booth]

mbooth added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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>  Closing as a duplicate of
> https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/fedora-release-tooling/us/998?kan...
>  
Woah, how is this a duplicate? The issue you linked to is about automating orphan package
status notifications. This ticket is about the releng process of unorphaning and
unretiring packages.

Please re-open.
``

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[Mohan Boddu]

mohanboddu added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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@mbooth Sorry for the confusion.

Unorphaning automation will be part of dist-git -
https://pagure.io/pagure-dist-git/pull-request/72
Unretirement automation is tracked in
https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/fedora-release-tooling/us/851?kan...
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[Neal Gompa]

ngompa added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Can we please not close tickets in Pagure with things in Taiga? It's hard to keep
track of everything when you do this.
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