Extras submissions (was: Re: Orphaned and potentially unmaintained packages)

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 20:43 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:53:19 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> > Please also consider whether you
> > _really_ want to submit updates for older distro versions, and be
> > prepared to verify all those builds if you do.
> 
> Another area where the list of unmaintained packages will kick in: package
> owner no longer has access to an old distribution to test with. In that
> case, a solution must be found for all distris which are still supported
> by Fedora Legacy.

When a Core release enters Legacy, IMO it would make sense to split the
corresponding Extras distro components and move them over to extras-
legacy or something at the same time, and apply the fedoralegacy.org
criteria for further updates to them.  Hopefully fedoralegacy.org could
also host the BTS and mirrors for extras-legacy.

Whether the packager providing updates for the Legacy Extras distros and
the current ones is the same one doesn't really matter.  Or whether
there is a designated Extras Legacy maintainer at all, actually.  IMHO,
it's better to not update legacy stuff at all than to release
blindfolded it-builds-so-it-works updates, even into a "testing"
repository.

Disclaimer: I'm not involved with Fedora Legacy nor speaking for them at
all, just throwing in some ideas.