Richard Shaw (hobbes1...@gmail.com) said: > Whoops, sorry about the reply to all (dang gmail)... I'll repost just > to the devel mailing list (I canceled the original). > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Before we branch for Fedora 18, as is custom, we will block currently > > orphaned packages and packages that have failed to build since Fedora 16. > > > > The following packages are currently orphaned, or fail to build. If > > you have a need for one of these packages, please pick them up. > > If no one claims any of these packages, they will be blocked before > > we branch for Fedora 18. We will block these packages on Monday, August 06. > > Will the FTBFS packages be orphaned prior to being blocked? It would > seem a grace period would be a good idea so people can pick them up if > the current owner is non-responsive.
Not directly. But if you have a fix and can get a proven packager to apply and build it, they won't be blocked. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
