[ACTION REQUIRED] [FINAL NOTICE] Retiring packages for F-18

[Bill Nottingham]

Richard Shaw (hobbes1069 at gmail.com) said: 
> Whoops, sorry about the reply to all (dang gmail)... I'll repost just
> to the devel mailing list (I canceled the original).
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Before we branch for Fedora 18, as is custom, we will block currently
> > orphaned packages and packages that have failed to build since Fedora 16.
> >
> > The following packages are currently orphaned, or fail to build. If
> > you have a need for one of these packages, please pick them up.
> > If no one claims any of these packages, they will be blocked before
> > we branch for Fedora 18. We will block these packages on Monday, August 06.
> 
> Will the FTBFS packages be orphaned prior to being blocked? It would
> seem a grace period would be a good idea so people can pick them up if
> the current owner is non-responsive.

Not directly. But if you have a fix and can get a proven packager to apply
and build it, they won't be blocked.

Bill