Plan for tomorrows (20081014) FESCO meeting

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:25:32PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue October 14 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:53:24PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> 
> > > Will there be a script that orphans all packages of the EOL release for
> > > every non interested maintainer in packagedb, so that the interested
> > > maintainers can pick it up and the non interested maintainers do not get
> > > unecessary mail?
> >
> > This is in the 'Possible follow-up' section, but maybe this should be
> > done right from the start.
> 
> Oh, I should not have skipped that section. This orphaning should be probably 
> somehow enhanced, that also co-maintainers are removed, who are not 
> interested. But it is hard to estimate how much this will be annoying, i.e. 

Indeed. I will change the page, thanks.

> how many changes there will be for how many packages. But it will also allow 
> to easier to track which packages are maintained in the EOL branch, which is 
> also useful for people, who want to have a certain package maintained.

Indeed. I didn't want to put that in the initial proposal, to try to
minimize the changes as much as possible.

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Pat