Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Jan 18 21:46:05 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> It might have been missed in  the passing but:
> 
> We have to reset our bugzilla password frequently
> We have to renew our Koji cert once a year
> 
> We should be able to detect when either of those goes wrong, probably
> easiest to do the koji cert one.  If there was some way to take the list
> of accounts in pkgdb, and compare them to the active valid certs, and
> any discrepancies where the account owns packages, we can tag those for
> needing attention. 

To be fair, this is a Maintainer down approach, as opposed to a package
up approach.  Seth is looking at this from the package point of view,
where as the above looks at it from a maintainer point of view.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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