Hi Alex, I agree that in these cases an immediate orphaning of the packages is justified, as the packager in question is clearly no longer active.
You might want to ask a provenpackager to push your fix directly to dist got though, to get the changes in place in time. Cheers, Dan On February 7, 2021 6:28:13 PM UTC, Alex Perez <ape...@alexperez.com> wrote: >Hi folks, > >I've opened https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574 >[https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574] to facilitate assumption ownership of the >Sugar packages in Fedora, most of which are de-facto abandoned by the previous >maintainer, erikos, who has not authenticated with his FAS account since March >of 2017, nearly three years ago. I can't find a working e-mail address for >him, and @chimosky and I are trying to get the remaining core Sugar packages >updated to the current version, before the F34 freeze happens. Therefore, time >is of the essence. The only two e-mail addresses I could find for Simon were >both aliases, si...@laptop.org [mailto:si...@laptop.org] and >si...@sugarlabs.org [mailto:si...@sugarlabs.org]. Both are no longer >functional, nor have they been for a couple of years. > >As an aside, I'd like to propose that FESCO consider revising the requirements >to simplify/expedite assumption of packages which have clearly been abandoned >by their previous maintainers. Perhaps "has not authenticated to FAS in 2+ >years" could be considered a form of abandonment? This subject seems worthy of >discussion at the next FESCO meeting. > $ ./fedora_active_user.py --user erikos >FAS username: aperezbios FAS password for aperezbios: Last login in FAS: >erikos 2017-03-10 Last action on koji: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 tag_package_owners >entry revoked by oscar Last package update on bodhi: No activity found on bodhi _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
