RFC: Mass rebuild of Fedora Extras before FC5 and how to handle orphaned packges for FC5

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 19:23 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Montag, den 16.01.2006, 09:59 -0800 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi:
>>  Someone has to commit to fixing the package if it breaks
> > or has security holes through the FC release cycle. [...]
> 
> This directly leads to another problem: We either need to drop all
> orphaned packages at the point where the maintainer steps down *or* we
> need a orphaned-packages-task-force that maintains orphaned packages in
> the trees where they were shipped (example: if foo was shipped in
> extras/4 and is orphaned now we either remove it now or somebody has to
> maintain it from now on until FC4 is EOL)

Or 3) there's a security-task-force which watches for securiy problems
and kicks orphaned packages when security is known to be compromised.

-Toshio
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