Attempting to contact two unresponsive maintainers - dajt and jpacner

[Stanislav Ochotnicky]

On Thu 04 Sep 2014 01:35:53 PM CEST Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:38:52AM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Johannes Lips wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Greetings, we've been told that the email addresses for two package
>> > > maintainers are no longer valid.  I'm starting the unresponsive
>> > > maintainer policy to find out if they are still interested in
>> > > maintaining their packages (and if so, have them update their email
>> > > addresses in FAS).  If they're not interested in maintaining or we
>> > > can't locate them I'll have FESCo orphan the packages so that others
>> > > can take them over.
>> > >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > wouldn't it make sense to integrate a check into the processes, when people
>> > leave Redhat, that the packages in fedora are properly orphaned or get a
>> > new owner?
>>
>>   Why would even someone's employment status matter?  Fedora is a community project.
>
> And much like anyone else, people come and go. The difference is that here, when
> they leave, we know about it before emails start to bounce.

Indeed. I have forwarded this thread to colleagues working on processes
when people are leaving RH to make sure we do necessary
checks/cleanups. Note that we don't want to automatically orphan
packages when people from RH leave (that would be rude) since people
actually do work on stuff outside of their work...

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