non responsive policy with invalid mail

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jun 6 19:07:03 UTC 2008


Patrice Dumas (pertusus at free.fr) said: 
> If the mail of the maintainer has changed, anybody noticing it should
> attempt to contact the maintainer through another mean and ask him to 
> take care of changing his information in the packagedb. If there is no 
> known way of contacting the former maintainer, or he is not willing to 
> make the required change in the packagedb, one should directly jump to 
> the mail of the formal request to orphan all the packager packages to 
> fedora-devel-list.

As long as it's distinguishing between invalid no-longer existing
e-mail addresses vs. temporarily bouncing ones, it sounds reasonable.

Bill




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