package submission take over question.

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 10:10 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 17:26 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Michael J. Knox wrote:
> >>> Hey all.
> >>>
> >>> I started the review of a package, but sadly the submitter seems to have
> >>> vanished. Nearly 3 months has passed and I have decided that I will
> >>> submit this package instead.
> >>>
> >>> Now... best practice question.
> >>>
> >>> Should I close the review and open a new one?
> >> IMO, bingo.
> > 
> > That's what I did with milter-regex when the same situation happened
> > there:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173522
> > 
> > Paul.
> > 
> 
> I've had (as reviewer) a similar issue and solved it by just recycling
> the review ticket with the new submitter. I believe closing it and
> opening a new one is better though.

Particularly in cases like these where the new submitter is the old
reviewer, who is no longer eligible to review the package.

> We should document this somewhere, as it seems this happens more then once.

That would be good, yes. One for the packaging committee.

Paul.