Inactive package maintainers cleanup on 2012-01-10

[Jon Ciesla]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Kurt Seifried <kurt at seifried.org> wrote:
> 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 =).
>
I'm willing to take:
bsd-games
deutex
freedoom
freedoom-freedm
freedroidrpg
manaworld
manaworld-music
neverball
prboom
rogue
ularn
yadex

and maybe others, though I'd obviously rather not have to. :)

> 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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