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[Patrice Dumas]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:45:11PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 21:31 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:04:06PM -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> > > Below is a current list of orphaned ownership packages that are still in 
> > > the rawhide collection.  The third column is the last person to built the 
> > > package.  Some of these packages like avahi obviously need a new owner 
> > > because we depend on it.  Others it might be a good idea to drop before F9 
> > > Beta (pending FESCO discussion).
> > >
> > > Any comments?
> > >
> > > Warren Togami
> > >
> > > agg-2.5-6.fc9                             dist-f9               pertusus
> > 
> > Indeed, I am the de facto maintainer. I just granted myself ownership. 
> > 
> > There is something really strange, there are 12 co-maintainers who have
> > watchcommit and commit or only commit (though anybody can commit..)
> > I am not sure they are all really interested.
> 
> Probably none of them. Those are people from the desktop team at RH,
> where the package used to be maintained for Core. When core and extras
> were merged, all the people in the Desktop team got "maintainership" on
> all the packages handled by colleagues in the team, as we don't usually
> fine-grain ownership quite that much.
> 
> I don't think anyone cares quite that much about agg anymore ;)

I guess that the gnash maintainer in OLPC cares, maybe the former owner
also cares (though it is not that clear).

Should I revoke their commit rights (given that everybody can commit
anyway)?

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Pat