Wiki Pages that need love

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
<fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> On 14.10.2008 17:49, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:51:33PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>
>>> database all the maintainers that maintain at least one EL branch. I'll
>>> mail Toshio to ask whether it is possible. And the text on this page
>>> should certainly be shortened.
>>
>> Toshio kindly answered me. Currently there is no url that can be used
>> for that, but he did a simple script to get that information.
>>
>> The script is here:
>> http://toshio.fedorapeople.org/pkgdb/id_to_owner.py
>>
>> The result is here:
>> http://toshio.fedorapeople.org/pkgdb/epel-owner.txt
>
> /me takes a quick look.
>
> The list contains corsepiu, which according to
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatusNo
> doesn't want to be a EPEL Contributer and according to
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/bugzilla?tg_format=plain
> is not maintaining any packages in EPEL directly. Maybe he's co-maintainer
> somewhere to make sure he sees commits, but the script did not catch that.
>
> And note, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatusNo IMHO
> definitely should stay to give people a chance to say "Please don't bug me
> with EPEL at all (not even mails asking if I want to maintain the package)"
> The page IMHO best stays separately and is not merged into
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatus, as that makes using
> the page contents in scripts a lot easier.
>

I think it would be better to see if we can get this into FAS and have
a link into FAS to show that datapoint.

 Having a page that people may or may not know about and may or may
not have changed their minds about is not helpful.

> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ContributorStatusYes OTHO should go; it
> should never have existed IMHO.
>
> CU
> knurd
>
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