Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-28 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 11:14 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > Nevertheless, what is the recommended procedure to claim the other > branches? Is it a ticket to FESCo trac or a CVS Admin procedure > request? Honestly that's a good question. I'd start with a FESCo ticket and see what happens? -- Jesse Ke

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-28 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 08:56:30AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > It was easier to just do devel, and that's the only place a package > would be blocked if these don't get owners. For the packages that do > get owners, we can free up whichever branches the new maintainer wishes, > which may not be

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-27 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:39:38AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:43:40 +0100 > Till Maas wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 02:42:58PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:52:12 +0100 > > > Till Maas wrote: > > > > > > > The list of packages you announce

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:43:40 +0100 Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 02:42:58PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:52:12 +0100 > > Till Maas wrote: > > > > > The list of packages you announced that are going to be orphaned > > > and the list of packages that were orph

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-27 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:46 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open > > > since the Fedora 11 time frame, and c

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-27 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 02:42:17PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:48:25 +0100 > Till Maas wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:39:54 +0100 > > > Till Maas wrote: > > > > > > > > Indeed. I don't see much activi

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-27 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open > > since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build. These > > are the oldest non-buil

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-27 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 02:42:58PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:52:12 +0100 > Till Maas wrote: > > > The list of packages you announced that are going to be orphaned and > > the list of packages that were orphaned are not the same. > > recordmydesktop was on the to-be-orphan

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jens Petersen wrote: > - "Seth Vidal" wrote: >> which is why All we're suggesting is filing a bug and/or some other >> kind of notification that says "are you alive". > > To clarify, only for FTBFS, right? > There's a lot more details involved. When I have the full spe

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Jens Petersen
- "Seth Vidal" wrote: > which is why All we're suggesting is filing a bug and/or some other > kind of notification that says "are you alive". To clarify, only for FTBFS, right? Jens -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:52:12 +0100 Till Maas wrote: > The list of packages you announced that are going to be orphaned and > the list of packages that were orphaned are not the same. > recordmydesktop was on the to-be-orphaned list but afaics was not > orphaned and also was not mentioned in your

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:48:25 +0100 Till Maas wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:39:54 +0100 > > Till Maas wrote: > > > > > > Indeed. I don't see much activity from them. > > > > Have you tried sending them an email? > > > > If not,

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Thomas Moschny wrote: > 2010/1/18 Seth Vidal : >> 1. extraordinarily stable >> [...] >> in ANY of those cases I'd want to start thinking about nuking the pkg from >> fedora. > > Are you serious? > As a heart attack. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Thomas Moschny
2010/1/18 Seth Vidal : > 1. extraordinarily stable > [...] > in ANY of those cases I'd want to start thinking about nuking the pkg from > fedora. Are you serious? - Thomas -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > After some talk on IRC yesterday, skvidal is the person doing work on this > at them moment. His plan is to implement tests that try to tell if > individual packages are maintained and get people to orphan those that are > not. Here's his general pl

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:27:04PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 11:55 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > > > > Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is > > > unmaintained, because if it is maintain

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-19 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 12:25 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > >> If we do that check before the alpha release that should let us track >> down >> awol maintainers and unmaintained pkgs pretty easily, I think. >> >> thoughts? > > There's trivial packages whi

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 11:55 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > > Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is > > unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually > uses > > it, otherwise he would just drop it.

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 12:25 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > If we do that check before the alpha release that should let us track > down > awol maintainers and unmaintained pkgs pretty easily, I think. > > thoughts? There's trivial packages which simply don't really need touching. I just updated con

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 18 January 2010 03:39:47 pm Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:22 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > I've not heard any other solutions which aren't "oh just let it be." > > It might have been missed in the passing but: > > We have to reset our bugzilla password frequently > We

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 22:51 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:01:23 +0100, Tomas wrote: > > > I think there should be at least two conditions which would have to be > > fulfilled for the nagging bug to be created - the package was not > > touched by the maintainer during rece

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:01:23 +0100, Tomas wrote: > I think there should be at least two conditions which would have to be > fulfilled for the nagging bug to be created - the package was not > touched by the maintainer during recent x months and at least one bug is > opened not closed in the bugzil

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:39 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > It might have been missed in the passing but: > > We have to reset our bugzilla password frequently > We have to renew our Koji cert once a year > > We should be able to detect when either of those goes wrong, probably > easiest to do the

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:08 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:55:13AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > > > > Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is > > > unmaintained, because if it is maintain

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 16:22 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > I've not heard any other solutions which aren't "oh just let it be." It might have been missed in the passing but: We have to reset our bugzilla password frequently We have to renew our Koji cert once a year We should be able to detect when

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Till Maas wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:55:36PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > >> Yes, I believe the expression you're looking for is: >> >> "Perfect is the enemy of the good" >> >> What is being suggested is not perfect. It is, however, good. > > Here we disagree. As I ex

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Till Maas wrote: >> Often maintainers don't realize they have some of these packages, or the >> maintainers have left the project. > > Do maintainer really "often" forget, that they own a certain package? > Ok, maybe if they are forced to do this from Red Hat, I do not know.

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:55:13AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > > Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is > > unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually uses > > it, otherwise he would just drop

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:55:36PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > Yes, I believe the expression you're looking for is: > > "Perfect is the enemy of the good" > > What is being suggested is not perfect. It is, however, good. Here we disagree. As I explained I see little use in it, since there are ot

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:55:13AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > > Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is > > unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually uses > > it, otherwise he would just drop

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 11:55 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > > > Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is > > unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually uses > > it, otherwise he would just drop it. I

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is > unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually uses > it, otherwise he would just drop it. If upstream is dead but the > maintainer fixes bugs, when they are f

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Till Maas wrote: > First of all, that would be two bug reports per year, as we have a 6 > month development cycle. But it also will not be that useful, as we > already have three things that have to be done by every maintainer once > or twice a year, so they can be easily us

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:24 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote: > So that means that for example for the openoffice.org-dict-cs_CZ package > I'll get the nag bug report before each and every Fedora release? > > It is definitely not 4. however 1. and 2. apply to it. As this is just a > czech spelling and hyph

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:32:10PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > I have another radical idea - we could whitelist all sorts of things which > are unchanging and yet used. We could act like reasonable folks and > realize that one extra bug report A YEAR that you have to close as 'fixed' > is really

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:04:14PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > I disagree about the bug being open. A lack of filed bugs could mean that > no one CARES about the pkg at all. And if we have pkgs which are not being > maintained AND no one cares enough to file a bug about then either they > are: >

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 14:04 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tomas Mraz wrote: >> >>> I think there should be at least two conditions which would have to be >>> fulfilled for the nagging bug to be created - the package was not >>> touch

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 14:04 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > > I think there should be at least two conditions which would have to be > > fulfilled for the nagging bug to be created - the package was not > > touched by the maintainer during recent x months

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Tomas Mraz wrote: > I think there should be at least two conditions which would have to be > fulfilled for the nagging bug to be created - the package was not > touched by the maintainer during recent x months and at least one bug is > opened not closed in the bugzilla on th

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 12:25 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the > > common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this > > for packages that appear via some criteria (ha

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Till Maas wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> >>> Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the >>> common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do th

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the > > common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this > > for packages that appear via some cri

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the > common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this > for packages that appear via some criteria (have not been built, have > not been committed to, have lots of bug

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-18 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matt Domsch (matt_dom...@dell.com) said: > > With nobody handling the incoming bugzilla tickets. With some bug > > reports having been killed in an automated way at dist EOL. And > > worse if it turns out that packages which do build are unmaintained > > nevertheless, with the same symptoms in bug

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-17 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:46:18PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > We could easily create a new class of bugzilla ticket, say > > "MAINTAINED". An automated process would generate such tickets, > > blocking F13MAINTAINED. The ticket would ask the maintain

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-17 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/16/2010 03:50 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> With nobody handling the incoming bugzilla tickets. With some bug >> reports having been killed in an automated way at dist EOL. And >> worse if it turns out that packages which do bui

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-17 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Matt Domsch wrote: > We could easily create a new class of bugzilla ticket, say > "MAINTAINED". An automated process would generate such tickets, > blocking F13MAINTAINED. The ticket would ask the maintainer to close > the ticket to remain the owner of the package. Ticket

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-17 Thread Ian Burrell
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Till Maas wrote: > >> perl-SVN-Mirror iburrell (fixed by Till Maas; spot says kill it) >> perl-SVN-Simple iburrell > > There is a minor error: I fixed the -Simple package with a patch > submitted in the upstream bugtracker iirc 7 days ago. But I also noticed > that

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-17 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:06:09PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > The following 30 packages, with respe

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-17 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:39:54 +0100 > Till Maas wrote: > > > > Indeed. I don't see much activity from them. > > > Have you tried sending them an email? > > > If not, I can. > > > > No, please go ahead. > > I took the liberty right

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:10:17PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:47:35AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > Bad idea (says someone who owns 150 packages). I don't feel like > > getting 150 bugzilla mails and having to (mass) close them each > > release. > > OK; add a fedora-p

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:47:35AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Bad idea (says someone who owns 150 packages). I don't feel like > getting 150 bugzilla mails and having to (mass) close them each > release. OK; add a fedora-packager script that mass-closes bugs; or use the bugzilla web interface t

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/16/2010 03:50 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> It's a more fundamental problem, though. The AWOL-process is for people, >> not for packages. The people may still be active (and even known to be >> active somewhere) and not AWOL

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:59 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > You know we have a procedure for this it is called the awol maintainer > procedure and it would be nice if FESco would follow its on procedures > here. > > Ah well I guess the rules don't apply to those who make them :( > > The non-respo

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 11:08 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Simply blocking the ones which FTBFS bugs were not > fixed from F-13 inclusion would have been the appropriate response > (as documented in our procedures), not > some adhoc almost random response. We are blocking them. Every release we r

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:13:32 +0100 Michael Schwendt wrote: > It's a more fundamental problem, though. The AWOL-process is for > people, not for packages. The people may still be active (and even > known to be active somewhere) and not AWOL, but the packages which > are assigned to them would stil

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:08:30 +0100 Hans de Goede wrote: > I don't see who the orphaning without following proper procedure is > appropriate at all. Simply blocking the ones which FTBFS bugs were not > fixed from F-13 inclusion would have been the appropriate response > (as documented in our proce

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:39:54 +0100 Till Maas wrote: > > Indeed. I don't see much activity from them. > > Have you tried sending them an email? > > If not, I can. > > No, please go ahead. I took the liberty right after I posted. (Hopefully Ian doesn't mind me passing this along:) Ian Burre

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:12:03AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > >> widelands-0-0.13.Build13.fc11.src.rpm > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511430 > >> xpilot-ng-4.7.2-16.fc11.src.rpm > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511717 > > Ah, how nice, these 2 are orphaned

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:39:17PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:13:29AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > Unfortunately, this has proven to be hard/impossible so far. > > > > >> perl-Class-InsideOut-1.09-2.fc11.src.rpm > > >>

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:50:14AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > With nobody handling the incoming bugzilla tickets. With some bug > > reports having been killed in an automated way at dist EOL. And > > worse if it turns out that

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:13:29AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> perl-Class-InsideOut-1.09-2.fc11.src.rpm > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539136 > > I intended to take this one, but the packagedb doesn't offer me an > option to take it: > > C.f.: > https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > unifdef-1.171-8.fc11.src.rpm > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511553 i fixed this, but i think we should still remove it because it has been superceded by the superior sunifdef. regards, kyle -- devel mailing list d

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > It's a more fundamental problem, though. The AWOL-process is for people, > not for packages. The people may still be active (and even known to be > active somewhere) and not AWOL, but the packages which are assigned to > them would

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:59:56 +0100, Hans wrote: > On 01/15/2010 09:01 PM, Till Maas wrote: > > > > What about the other packages of these maintainers? E.g. in the > > recordmydesktop case, there were four bugs open with working patches > > attached for that package. I did not yet check the other p

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >> The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open >> since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build. These >> are the oldest non-building packages in

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/16/2010 12:14 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 22:58 +0100, Till Maas wrote: >> But what about the other packages by these maintainers that do not fail >> to build but are probably as unmaintained as the packages that fail to >> build? >> > > Because this isn't a fully pr

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/15/2010 09:06 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, h

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/15/2010 09:01 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >>> The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open >>> since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Till Maas
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:13:32AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:13:29 +0100, Ralf wrote: > > > On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > > > At today's FESCo meeting, it was agreed that all the below packages > > > would be marked orphan. > > > > Well, if FESCO

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:05:04PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:58:54 +0100 > Till Maas wrote: > > > perl-SVN-Mirror iburrell (fixed by Till Maas; spot says kill it) > > > perl-SVN-Simple iburrell > > > > There is a minor error: I fixed the -Simple package with a patch > >

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-16 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:13:29 +0100, Ralf wrote: > On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > > At today's FESCo meeting, it was agreed that all the below packages > > would be marked orphan. > > Well, if FESCO thinks this was a good idea ... I think you guys stopped > half-ways: You better

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Domsch
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:13:29AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > Unfortunately, this has proven to be hard/impossible so far. > > >> perl-Class-InsideOut-1.09-2.fc11.src.rpm > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539136 > > I intended to ta

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/15/2010 08:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: >> The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open >> since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build. These >> are the oldest non-building packages in the

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 22:58 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > But what about the other packages by these maintainers that do not fail > to build but are probably as unmaintained as the packages that fail to > build? > Because this isn't a fully proper non-responsive maintainer approach, we felt it was on

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:58:54 +0100 Till Maas wrote: > But what about the other packages by these maintainers that do not > fail to build but are probably as unmaintained as the packages that > fail to build? There may be some cases of that. If so, the non responsive maintainer procedure should b

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:06:09PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > > What about the other packages of these maintainers? E.g. in the > > recordmydesktop case, there were four bugs open with working patches > > attached for that package. I di

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Domsch
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open > > > since the Fedora 11 time frame

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Till Maas
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:17:28PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open > > since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build. These > > are the oldest non-buil

Re: Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 13:17 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > Any package still orphaned as of the Feb 16 F13 Alpha freeze will be > dropped per standard operating procedure. > > I might attempt to drop them a bit earlier than alpha freeze, so that if there is unexpected fallout we have time to fix it

Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

2010-01-15 Thread Matt Domsch
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00:50AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > The following 30 packages, with respective FTBFS bugs, have been open > since the Fedora 11 time frame, and continue to fail to build. These > are the oldest non-building packages in the distribution, everything > else (over 8800) mana