I claimed qgis

Michel Alexandre Salim michael.silvanus at gmail.com
Sun Jul 4 00:07:48 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> I was looking at qgis for doing roleplaying maps (I am not sure if that
>> will work out) and noticed it was way behind upstream and then when filing
>> a bug, noticed that it was orphaned.
>> I am going to try to get it updated to 1.4 and see how things go. If it
>> works out for roleplaying, I'll be a long term maintainer, if not I might
>> orphan it again.
>
> Sorry, but qgis has been orphaned and not updated for more than 3 months, so
> it needs a rereview as per:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#Claiming_Ownership_of_an_Orphaned_Package_Procedure
> which is already in progress here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605373
> where the specfile is also updated to 1.4.
>
> The package is supposed to be owned by Volker Fröhlich, who is being
> sponsored as part of the rereview.
>
> So please release ownership again, and you can apply for comaintainership
> once the required rereview is through.
>
Would be nice if our package database supports freezing up packages
that should not be claimed -- and automatically do that once a package
is orphaned for long enough?

-- 
Michel


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