Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 6.11.2012 14:17, Aleksandar Kurtakov napsal(a):
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Vít Ondruch" <vondruch at redhat.com>
>> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 2:56:18 PM
>> Subject: Re: Revamping the non responsive maintainer process
>>
>> So give me the permission [1] as well as the others who requested it
>> before me.
>>
>> Apparently the current owner doesn't care. You can compare the
>> version
>> history in koji [2] and [3] and if he doesn't care about one package,
>> it
>> is reasonable to doubt that the other packages will be in better
>> state.
> The problem here is that pkgdb requests are not auto approved after some timeout period if the maintainer hasn't reacted.

That would be sweet if it would be auto approved.

> I remember I already said that in some past discussion on the topic. And it says nothing about the maintainer you speak about he might be back some time soon and be more active than all of us speaking here for some period.

Yes, he might get back and is occupied currently, but this should not be 
showstopper for Fedora.

>   But if you declare him unresponsive and throw him away we as a community lose him forever.

Any statistics on this? ;)



Vit