non responsive policy with invalid mail

Steve Conklin steve at conklinhouse.com
Fri Jun 6 19:10:23 UTC 2008


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I propose to add the following to the Non-responsive Maintainer Policy
> (at the beginning):
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Pat
>
>   

Sounds great to me. It would have prevented this problem. I'm not hard 
to find, especially since the other maintainers on the packages (who are 
subscribed to the BZs) and I are all on IRC most of the time.

Steve




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