Revamping the non responsive maintainer process

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 6.11.2012 16:04, Ralf Corsepius napsal(a):
> On 11/06/2012 02:24 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Do you want a backdoor permitting all script kidz and overzealous, but 
> unexperienced newcomers to automatically take over packages?

Come on, there are the same alarmist who think that Wikipedia will be 
hijacked and destroyed but have it happened any time?

You are still maintainer, you are still owner and you are notified by 
email about every change in your package, so you'll be able to catch 
such activity pretty soon and act accordingly.

>
> I regret having to say so, but the unpleasant fact is, Fedora does 
> have such "participants".

Such people are everywhere. May be they can trick the system, become 
proven packager and takeover you packages. Who knows. You can never be sure.

>
> When I do not react upon requests, 

I appreciate you swiftly react upon request, but unfortunately that does 
not imply that every other packager will react as swiftly as you.

> I usually either missed or forgot about the request or deliberately do 
> not yet want to approve.
> That said, what I feel is missing in Fedora's pkgdb web-forms is an 
> option to "leave a comment to applicant" and an "some automated 
> reminder mechanisms" to remind "approvers" about pending requests.

There is bugzilla, but it is definitely not the most flexible tool on 
the world.

>
> Ralf
>