package submission take over question.

[Michael J. Knox]

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


I agree.. some addition to the AWOL/MIA policy perhaps?

Michael