#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 till):

 Replying to [comment:10 pnemade]:

 > How will this help if you will directly remove the packages and then
 send the report that some packages removed due to some other orphaned
 packages and do not give sufficient time for people to consume that
 information? If I would have notified personally with just the related
 information to me, I could have taken rpmdevtools package.

 I never retired rpmdevtools. fontpackages was retired for reasons
 unrelated to rpmdevtools - the actual reason was mentioned in the
 dead.package file in GIT. However, due to caching/timing the report script
 did not yet know that fontpackages was already retired when it checked the
 consequences of retiring rpmdevtools. Maybe this makes it a little clearer
 for you.

 > See
 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers#Claiming_Ownership_of_a_Retired_Package
 and you will find point 3 there saying "To unretire a EPEL branch if the
 package is still in Fedora, no re-review is required." and still unretire
 process asked me to re-review the package as it was more than 2 weeks.
 >
 > Can you people decide on what should be the real policy wordings here
 and follow that exactly?

 To my knowledge, the wiki is correct. However it might still happen that
 someone forgets the details since we are not perfect. I assumed that there
 was no Fedora branch since you mentioned that no needed a re-review
 earlier. So if you notice a contradiction in the wiki policy description
 and the actual actions, please make sure to resolve the issues by
 mentioning them/updating the wiki.

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