Cristian Balint seems to be a non-responsive maintainer

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 18:45 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Alex Lancaster wrote:
> > Hi there, 
> > 
> > As per the policy[1], I'm making formal request to mark Cristian
> > Balint as an non-responsive maintainer.  Repeated attempts over the
> > last few months via bugzilla have not been responded to, two examples:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=341391 (grass)
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=414441 (gdal)
> > 
> > Lack of reponse has meant that all packages related to various GIS
> > packages such as gdal, grass, mapserver have languished with broken
> > deps in rawhide for over a month.  Also, he has not rebuilt a single
> > package via koji since 02 August 2007 [2] and is not listed as being
> > on vacation[3].
> > 
> > Before mass orphaning, at the very least, I recommend that ACLs for
> > cvsextras members be opened up on his packages to allow rebuilds of
> > these packages in rawhide, especially since these GIS packages aren't
> > packages that usually ship by default on any spin and are very much
> > leaf packages.
> 
> cbalint is no longer with RHAT, which may be why he has not responded to
> any issues.
> 
> ACLs have been opened for cvsextras on:
> 
> fftw2, gdal, grass, iverilog, libdap, libgeotiff, mapserver, and ogdi

I'm wondering if Christian would be willing to work on the packages
anymore. I am putting him to Cc with hope that he'll respond and
eventually change his FAS and Bugzilla address to point to his current
e-mail address.

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Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)