What about packages that see infrequent updates; I maintain Nethack and the Dev Team can and does take years between releases. If it's just a blanket email to ask the packagers if they're still interested that's one thing, but going off package updates may be problematic for some folks.
> On Nov 17, 2018, at 6:36 AM, Manas Mangaonkar <manasmangaon...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Yes, this could be a good idea. Might be too small as a gsoc project though. > > I'd happily take this as i am anyways going to try for gsoc 19 with > fedora,this could be a good starting point. > > A simple dockerized/contenerized python based app could be done as a very > simple implementation. > > > > On Nov 17, 2018 4:35 PM, "Mattia Verga" <mattia.ve...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Too often there are "non responsive maintainer" messages here. > > Sometimes this is because a maintainer has lost their interest in Fedora > and left their responsibilities without communication, which means their > packages can be left unmaintained for long time in repositories before > someone notice that. > > At other times the maintainer is still active, but for some reason they > are unreachable to users (email change, etc.). > > I would propose some sort of automatic check of maintainer responsivity. > Maybe a tool that checks a packager activity in the last 6 months and if > there is no activity then sends an email asking the maintainer to > confirm they're still involved in Fedora. In case there's no reply, > either automatically orphan their packages or notify someone > (devel-list) to try to reach them. > > What do you think? > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
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