Unresponsive maintainer and unupdated package

[Chaoyi Zha]

Node.js v0.12 has since become outdated. The page about updating it to 0.12
for F23 is likely outdated as well by now. We may want to create a new page
if it is needed.

Here is the latest "LTS" release:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.2.1/

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 7:32 AM Chaoyi Zha <summermontreal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah,  there is a Node.js list? I'll look into it and see if anything is
> going on over there.
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 7:32 AM Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>
>> On 19/10/15 12:22, Chaoyi Zha wrote:
>>
>> > I think someone else has also recently e-mailed about this unresponsive
>> > maintainer, "patches".
>> >
>> > I am looking to update one of his packages,  "nodejs"
>> >
>> > It is currently at version 0.10 in our PkgDB but  the current version is
>> > 4.2.1
>> >
>> > I would be happy to update and maintain this package, but I do not have
>> > any rights to it and it is not orphaned yet.
>>
>> Updating nodejs is nothing to be done lightly. It was supposed to be
>> updated to 0.12 for F23:
>>
>>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NodeJS012
>>
>> There was also an io.js plan:
>>
>>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/iojs
>>
>> I don't think that either happened in the end though, and obviously
>> events have been somewhat overtaken by the remerger with io.js.
>>
>> I'd suggest contacting the nodejs list in the first instance anyway as
>> that is where all the experts will be, including patches normally.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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