[ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17

[Brendan Jones]

On 01/14/2012 07:12 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> Keeping packages around with no maintainers or people handling their
>> bugs is poor for everyone.
>
> Why? If I, as a user, really need a certain piece of software, I'd rather
> have an unmaintained package than none at all! Worst case, I can't use the
> package at all, in which case I'm still no worse off than with no package at
> all! (And now with my packager hat on, fixing and/or updating a package in
> the repo also requires less effort than unretiring a package which got
> removed.)
>
>          Kevin Kofler
>
I agree! If a package is orphaned, can't we automatically escalate 
ownership to the next co-maintainer (when there is one - perhaps the one 
with the most commits for example).

If a package is being orphaned for legitimate reasons, the owner should 
announce the intention to their co-maintainers first and they can opt to 
remove their ACLs before the package is orphaned.

Its hard enough getting packages reviewed as is, let alone throwing a 
myriad of perfectly functioning packages back on the pile.

Brendan
(bsjones)