Wiki Pages that need love

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 10/14/2008 08:02 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 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.
>   
100% agree here. I for one have completely forgotten about the 
StatusYes/No pages. Hopefully no one cursed me so far because of my mails...