Unresponsive Package Maintainer - Gary T. Giesen

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:50:38 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 01.11.2011, 19:36 +0100 schrieb Sven Lankes:
> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:15:20PM +0200, Sven Lankes wrote:
> > > Does anyone know how to contact Gary T. Giesen?
> > > I've sent him an email (also CCed on this one) a few months ago
> > > requesting co-maintainer status for daemonize without a response.
> > > Gary has two open bugs without a response:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701383
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746783
> > > His last koji build was in July 2009 - 27 months ago.
> > 
> > No change here. I haven't received a reply so I'm requesting his
> > packages to be orphaned. I would like to take daemonize and rancid.
> > 
> > > I'm following the procedure at:
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers
> 
> No really. You should have done this in the bug reports in BZ and not
> on the mailing list. 2 Attempts in BZ are the first step, then comes
> the mailing list and (my personal opinion) a personal mail because
> people tend to ignore lists and BZ.
> 
> ... in this particular case where a maintainer is has not done
> anything for more than 2 years, I find it hard to believe he will
> return. I therefor approve your request as a FESCO member in order to
> continue with the procedure.

I'm Gary's sponsor. I, too, have been trying to contact him for a long
time. As nothing has happened, I have revoked my sponsorship. 
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org