Unresponsive package maintainer policy change proposal

Luya Tshimbalanga luya at fedoraproject.org
Sun Dec 8 08:18:38 UTC 2013


On 07/12/13 02:44 AM, Mattia Verga wrote:
> Hello all,
> I would like to submit a change proposal for the unresponsive package 
> maintainer policy.
> The policy now says [1] "/File a bug against the package in Bugzilla 
> asking for the maintainer to respond. This bug should list the 
> outstanding issues they need to address. This is a must./"
>
> I think this kind of bug should not be filled against the single 
> package, but something like against infrastructure. Also it should 
> block all bugs assigned to that user.
>
>
I think assigning packages from the unresponsive maintainer to  a 
Special Interest Group (SIG) as temporary measure would be a very 
suggestion. One of good examples is KDE with its very active maintainers 
taking care of KDE components should one of them be absent due to 
circumstance.

Luya

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