#6127: send direct e-mails to (co)maintainers of orphaned packages

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#6127: send direct e-mails to (co)maintainers of orphaned packages
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  Reporter:  pnemade         |      Owner:  rel-eng@…
      Type:  enhancement     |     Status:  closed
 Milestone:  Fedora 22 Beta  |  Component:  epel
Resolution:  fixed           |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                  |   Blocking:
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Comment (by pnemade):

 Again you are giving the same (for me it looks) unrelated reference of
 January epel-devel email. Note you ran the script without checking what
 got re-imported in epel5. I re-imported fontpackages because there were 2
 reasons

 1) font packages was removed due to this

 2) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fonts-
 bugs/2015-January/027474.html

 What Robert suggested there is the later thing as rpmdevetools itself
 caused the issues of removal of font packages. What I know is that your
 script has wasted my time of re-importing the fontpackages. You should
 first add more validations before running any such scripts and not to ask
 package maintainers to provide patches.

 I don't know why you emphasize so much on removal of orphaned packages.

 May I know why there is no owner shown for fontpackages and devjavu-fonts
 in https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-
 devel/2015-March/010968.html ? That report referenced build fontpackages-
 devel-1.44-1.el5.2.noarch which is completed by me, see
 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=610973

 Re-importing packages is not a big issues but Dennis insisted re-review of
 such packages and then there will be no review or reviewer for some time.
 You should also invest some time in re-reviewing such removed packages.
 All this process is a big pain.

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