[ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for Fedora 18

[Brett Lentz]

On 09/07/12 08:40 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:54:38 +0200
>Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/07/12 22:55, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> > Package html401-dtds (orphan)
>> > 	comaintained by: gnat
>>
>> Does it mean, we won't have HTML 4.01 DTDs packaged in Fedora? That
>> sounds bad. Also, how can orphan be comaintained? Won't comaintainer
>> be automatically elevated to a maintainer?
>
>There's no setup to do that automatically, it's up to the comaintainer
>to note that the maintainer orphaned the package and take ownership.
>
>Normally you would think if you were co-maintaining something you would
>notice if it was orphaned I would think...
>
>kevin
>

-1

That's poor app design and, IMO, a bug.

The software *should* allow the maintainer to relinquish responsiblities and
either A) designate a new maintainer OR B) have maintainership automatically
shift to the next co-maintainer (for simplicity, this could be based on date commit rights were granted to
the package's repo)

Both use cases should be supported because allowing a co-maintained package to
be orphaned without the consent of *ALL* maintainers makes no sense.

---Brett.
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