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

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/22/2011 01:48 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> The problem here is that in my eyes there are no inactive contributors and
> there shouldn't be anything preventing people from contributing (even if it's one update per year).
> While I agree that projects that FTBFS, can't be installed and etc. should be purged every release, everything
> else should be out of question because the fact that someone considers something legacy
> doesn't mean that it's not usable for others. And to make it clear handling bugs is not a measure at all about activity.
> So if you come with a technical list of things that make sure that a package is unusable for 100%(e.g. can't be installed because of missing dependency) of the users
>   it's not a question that it should be removed, but if there is someone that signed as a maintainer and
> there is even a slight possibility that someone can use nothing more can be required from the maintainer.
> Note the usage of required, all kind of suggestions can be made and people can do additional work but everyone should do as much as he can/want/have fun to do.
>

If more than you and Kevin Kofler are working under this assumption than 
the whole scenario begs the question why we even bother with QA and 
Security et all...

JBG