Inactive package maintainers cleanup on 2012-01-10

[Kurt Seifried]

I had previously taken over the mediawiki-openid package from Axel
Thimm in like early 2010. I'd also be willing to take over fail2ban
(also Axil Thimm). So that's 2 down, 800 to go =).

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Last year we asked everyone to change their fedora account system
> password and upload a new ssh public key. The deadline for this was
> 2011-11-30. Those who had not uploaded a new key or changed their
> password were marked 'inactive' in the fedora account system.
>
> Some subset of those inactive users were/are package maintainers.
> On 2012-01-10, we are going to remove these inactive users from package
> acls. This will result in some packages being orphaned and available
> for other maintainers. Any packages not owned prior to Feature Freeze
> for Fedora 17 (2012-02-07) will be retired.
>
> A full list of users and packages and acls affected as of 2012-01-06 can
> be found at: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3046
>
> If you know a user who is currently inactive and affected by this
> process and have a way to contact them, please ask them to change their
> password and upload a new ssh key and they will continue to hold their
> package acls.
>
> More information:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/Schedule
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Deprecate_orphaned_packages
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3046
>
> kevin
>
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