Merging Core and Extras Bugzilla Products -- owners.list

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 08:36 +0200, Radek Vokál wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > The Fedora Core and Fedora Extras Bugzilla products will be merged into
> > a single Fedora product Sometime Very Soon (TM).  When that happens we
> > will have to merge the ownership details in owners.list as well.
> > 
> > For most packages, this merge will be a rather humdrum announcement that
> > won't affect you at all.  For a few, the packages that were in Fedora
> > Core for some releases and Fedora Extras for some others, the ownership
> > details of the packages will be merged.
> > 
> > For instance, these entries for ccid:
> >   Fedora Core|ccid|Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver|
> > rrelyea at redhat.com|extras-qa at fedoraproject.org|
> >   Fedora Extras|ccid|Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver|
> > ville.skytta at iki.fi|extras-qa at fedoraproject.org|
> > ludovic.rousseau at gmail.com
> > 
> > Will be merged into this:
> >   Fedora|ccid|Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver|
> > rrelyea at redhat.com,ville.skytta at iki.fi|extras-qa at fedoraproject.org|
> > ludovic.rousseau at gmail.com
> > 
> > If you were happy to give up your duties as a maintainer of one of these
> > packages when it shifted repositories before you'll want to take a look
> > at the owners.list file after we announce the Bugzilla Merge has taken
> > place and request cleanups be made where appropriate.
> > 
> > Once again, this is just a heads up.  We'll be sure to announce the
> > bugzilla and owners.list merge when it actually takes place.
> > 
> 
> So what is the current procedure of changing ownership of the package? 
> Does editing the owners.list file still has the same effect on bugzilla 
> or do we have to go through a bugzilla bug as it was proposed some time 
> ago?

You currently can't edit owners.list today anyway.  You need to follow
the procedure outlined here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure

josh