Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/15/2010 09:06 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
>>>> The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open
>>>> since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build.  These
>>>> are the oldest non-building packages in the distribution, everything
>>>> else (over 8800) managed to build for Fedora 12 or newer already.
>>>
>>> At today's FESCo meeting, it was agreed that all the below packages
>>> would be marked orphan.  I know several of these have been fixed by
>>> provenpackagers already - you are welcome to un-orphan and maintain
>>> them going forward, or the original package owner may choose to do so.
>>
>> What about the other packages of these maintainers? E.g. in the
>> recordmydesktop case, there were four bugs open with working patches
>> attached for that package. I did not yet check the other packages, but
>> in case a packager does not have the time anymore to maintain one
>> package from this list, why do we assume that he has the time to
>> maintain the others?
>> So before the mass orphaning is done, it would be nice to do it in a way
>> that allows to at least easily spot which maintainers owned the packages
>> before the orphage, so non responsive maintainers can be found easier.
>> Or tell all maintainers in question and orphan all their packages. But
>> the current solution seems to be only half-baked.
>
> I made sure that no one who fixed a package was actually the package
> owner.
>
> Pre-orphaning:
>
> evolution-brutus   bpepple
> geronimo-specs     fnasser
> gmfsk              bjensen  (fixed by caolanm)
> gnome-scan         deji
> Io-language        orphan (fixed by caolanm)

Used to be owned by: hdegoede, who took ownership of it again
yesterday as he didn't knew it was orphaned. I hope you
didn't orphan it again, but I'll check.

> knm_new-fonts      orphan
> libFoundation      athimm
> ohm                cjb  (should be dead)
> perl-AnyEvent-XMPP allisson (WIP by spot)
> perl-Class-InsideOut cweyl (fixed by Ralf)
> perl-Jemplate        cweyl (fixed by Spot)
> perl-MooseX-Traits-Attribute-CascadeClear cweyl (spot says kill it)
> perl-RRD-Simple cweyl (spot says kill it)
> perl-SVN-Mirror iburrell (fixed by Till Maas; spot says kill it)
> perl-SVN-Simple iburrell
> prctl karsten
> qtiplot frankb
> skychart lkundrak
> smarteiffel orphan
> synce-kde awjb
> unifdef dwmw2
> widelands karlik (WIP by hdegoede)

I'll pick up this one.

> xpilot-ng wart (fixed by hdegoede)

I know wart as a very active Games SIG contributor, and I'm
against just orphaning this single package of him. I've not heard
anything from him in a while. It might be a good idea to actually
use the awol maintainer procedure here. This way we can find out
if he really is MIA, and if so deal with all his packages.

Note the same argument can be made for all of the packagers in
this list!

> xqilla10 orphan
> xqilla orphan
>

Regards,

Hans