Orphaned packages not! (splat, gpsman, nec2c)

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Jun 6 18:00:08 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 13:01 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 18:10 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Maybe it could also be possible for some employees to go through regular
> > sponsorship and use the regular CLA. I understand that it is not always
> > possible, sometime redhat wants to hire somebody to work on packages
> > without going through the fedora formal process, but I think that
> > @redhat people interested in being part of the fedora community are
> > likely to be able to go through the fedora process (even though not when
> > they have just arrived).
> 
> Regardless if which method they obtain CLA, once they end their
> employment with Red Hat that CLA is technically no longer valid,
> particularly if they take employment with somebody else.  Sadly this
> is a pretty big gaping hole in our system.

Do I need to execute the CLA now? I certainly don't intend to stop
maintaining any of my packages (except RHEL glibc-kernheaders! Yay!).

-- 
dwmw2




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