Automating the NonResponsiveMaintainers policy

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 03/02/2012 04:27 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 03:21 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> Process looks like this:
>>
>> * Guidelines updated
>> * Someone notices that the package does not follow the guidelines
>> (Note that
>>    this step does not require that the Guidelines were updated... the
>>    packaging bug could have been missed during review or been introduced
>>    later).
>> * That person files a bug.
>> * If the maintainer chooses to ignore the bug or refuse to fix it then
>> the
>>    matter is escalated.
>>    - In an ideal world, it would probably go to FPC as a "can we
>> change the
>>      guidelines?  I have this special case which I don't think you
>> intended."
>>    - In a less ideal world, or in  the case where the FPC has already
>> made
>>      clear that they did intend it to apply in that case, it would
>> fall on
>>      FESCo to enforce the decision.
>>
>> How would fesco enforce the decision?  That would depend on the arguments
>> being made and the maintainer attitude.  For instance, if the maintainer
>> said, I simply don't have time to fix this, "enforcement" would probably
>> that someone would fix it for them and apply the patch to the spec file.
>>
>> OTOH, if the maintainer decided that they were going to revert any change
>> made to the package to fix the issue, FESCo would have to remove the
>> maintainer from the package and tell them they could not be a
>> committer on
>> that package for a period of time.  They might even remove the
>> packager from
>> the packager group if the maintainer was uncooperative enough.enough.
> 
> Does FPC have any process to measure how many packages are affected by a
> single change made to guidelines?
> 
> If so is it hard to implement the process I mentioned which hopefully
> should keep packages according to guidelines and up to date?
> 
> JBG

You are looking for re-review of packages mentioned many times before.
But we have problems to find reviewers for new one, so I don't believe
we would find enough people for this.

Marcela