We'll officially orphan Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams packages

[Michael J. Knox]

I am offering to take on:

fyre
deskbar-applet
leafpad
linphone
pam_mysql
fltk
notecase
TurboGears
python-json (needed by TurboGears)
python-TestGears (needed by TurboGears)
python-sqlobject (needed by TurboGears)
python-formencode (needed by TurboGears)

I will stick my name by them on the orphans page. No objection by weeks 
end, I will update the owners.list.

Thanks!

Michael

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Some relevant parts (a lot of lines were stripped) from the last
> FESCo-Meeting:
> 
>> 19:57 <     bpepple> | Has anyone been able to get a hold of Ignacio?  And if not should we expedite the  AWOL/maintainership of his packages?
>> 19:59 <     bpepple> | As far as I can tell, no once's been able to contact him.
>> 19:59 <    dgilmore> | thl: if no one could get hold of him i say mark all his packages as orphaned  and ask memebers in the comminity to pick them up if they have intrest
>> 19:59 <         thl> | dgilmore, I'd like to leave the option open that he get's his packages back if he shows up later
>> 20:00 <       tibbs> | co-maintainership will always leave that avenue open.
>> 20:00 <      warren> | thl, we just make it known that if he wants to come back he's welcome to.  But meanwhile we must do our best to make sure thing are maintained.
>> 20:02 <        scop> | if Ignacio reappears, FWIW I think it's the new maintainer's call whether he wants to hand the packages back, co-maintain, or neither
>> 20:03 < abadger1999> | with com-maintainership in mind, should we put ignacio's email into the CC field of owners.list?
> 
> As FC6 is approaching and Ignacio seems to be AWOL for a long time now
> we'll speed up the AWOL process. In other words: All of Ignacio's
> packages are hereby considered orphaned. It's sad to lose such a major
> contributor, but we can't avoid it any longer.
> 
> I added all of his 52 packages to a separate section on
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages
> 
> Here's the list:
> alltray deskbar-applet ecore edb edje eet embryo evas f2py fltk fyre
> ghasher gnet2 gnome-applet-music gnome-applet-rhythmbox
> gnome-theme-clearlooks gnome-theme-clearlooks-bigpack gpredict hamlib
> leafpad libifp libosip libosip2 libsexy linphone lock-keys-applet
> mimetex MochiKit mod_auth_pam moodle nautilus-search-tool notecase numpy
> OpenEXR ortp pam_mysql php-json pyparsing python-amara python-cpio
> python-formencode python-HTMLgen python-json python-nose
> python-sqlobject python-TestGears repoml soundconverter sqlite sqlite2
> TurboGears wp_tray
> 
> The usual process for orphan packages that's described on above
> wiki-page applies mostly now. Mostly: We should try to sort this out
> quickly to not disturb the current mass-rebuild to much. And postings to
> f-e-l with "I'd like to take package foo" could soon end in a real mess.
> So I propose this scheme:
> 
> If you want to take over one of Ignacio's packages add your name to
> above list in the wiki at the proper place. If no one else volunteered
> to take over that package until next Sunday, 23:59 UTC take it over with
> the usual process (change owners.list, move bugs over, ...). If there
> are multiple volunteers for a package at that time please sort it out in
> private (or on the list if it can't be avoided) who will act as primary
> maintainer in the future. If we can't avoid it I'll act as a mediator
> between interested parties. I'd like to get this done as far as possible
> until September the 7th before the FESCo meeting (17:00 UTC).
> 
> Please keep ignacio's email into the CC field of owners.list when you
> take over a package. We still hope that he joins us again. If that
> happens please consider to give him his packages back if he shows
> interest in them again.
> 
> Did I miss anything? Hope not.
> 
> CU
> thl
>