Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:58:50 +0100, RH (Reindl) wrote:

> +1
> 
> nothing is more frustrating for users as ignored bugreports reintroduced from
> release to relase while th eonly response is from bugzapper about EOL of the
> release

Well, that's not the same problem as this thread is about.

There a very active packagers (and developers who also do packaging tasks)
who don't respond to [all] tickets due to various reasons. Some of the
reasons are valid. Become a package maintainer yourself, Harald, before
you judge about them all.


I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection of
inactive maintainers and unmaintained packages.

Existing procedures only cover the case when an inactive (or "non-responsive
maintainer") has been detected already:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers

Nothing is in place to detect inactive maintainers automatically. FTBFS
can help with detecting unmaintained packages, but sometimes this leads to
discovering that the packager has stopped using Fedora package git many
months ago already, for example.