[ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for Fedora 18

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:18:59AM -0400, Brett Lentz wrote:
> 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.
> 
We had (B) setup at one time but without also having (A) it was more of
a bug than a feature.  fchiulli has done work to enable (A) in the
development branch of pkgdb but someone needs to get enough 'round 'tuits to
stabilize a release....

-Toshio
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