Looking for reasons why mod_security pkg was orphaned/retired
Peter Vrabec
pvrabec at redhat.com
Thu Apr 11 09:36:06 UTC 2013
Hi Athmane,
I'm sorry for this inconvenience. You see, it was not my aim to retire
mod_security.
I decided to move my ownership to Daniel since I was not an active
maintainer. I believe Daniel will be more helpful and responsive than
me. He just needs to improve his mouse control a bit. ;)
Peter.
On 04/11/2013 10:05 AM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:01:05AM +0200, Daniel Kopecek wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 04/10/2013 09:20 PM, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm (co-/) maintainer of mod_security, I noticed that the owner
>>> orphaned
>>> it and then retired it, obviously I can't take it over. [1]
>>>
>>> I'm kindly asking for the reasons ?
>>>
>>> I'm maintaining this package (on fedora and epel) lately so it safe
>>> to assign to me if it's possible.
>>>
>>> CCing the former and new owners.
>>>
>>> [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mod_security
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> -- Athmane
>>
>> that was a mistake, I've clicked the wrong button. It's funny how
>> easy it is to retire a package if you don't event own it :]
>> I hope I'll manage to unretire it by today, I don't see any button
>> for that in the pkgdb web UI.
>>
>> Dan K.
>>
>
> Apparently you'll need to do a SCM admin request
>
> From link [1]:
>
> Package Change Requests for existing packages
>
> To request:
>
> additional branches for an existing package
>
> unretirement of a package on specific branches
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> other special git requests, etc
>
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_SCM_admin_requests#Package_Change_Requests_for_existing_packages
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Athmane
>
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