owners.list to PackageDB translation status and opinions

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:22:30 +0530, Rahul wrote:

> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > I'm working on a script to parse owners.list and import it into the new
> > PackageDB.  So far, the biggest hurdle has been that some email
> > addresses in owners.list do not match with the email addresses in the
> > accounts system.  I've tracked most of these down with a few exceptions
> > and caveats.
> > 
> > extras-qa [] fedoraproject.org: This is the initial qa contact that is
> > entered into bugzilla for bugs on a package.  I'd like to discard this
> > information and start fresh in the new packageDB.  If a qa-contact
> > should be applied to the package then it should be entered for each
> > package, otherwise there will be no qa-contact.  If we are currently
> > using extras-qa to do something useful please let me know so we can work
> > out what's sane to do here.
> > 
> > extras-orphan [] fedoraproject.org: For orphaned packages.  I think
> > we're going to create an orphan account to fill this.
>  >
> 
> Is there any particular reason this should be changed from nobody [] 
> fedoraproject.org?

<?> The bugzilla account e-mail address for orphaned packages has
always been extras-orphan [] fedoraproject.org -- this is useful,
because the address can be monitored and use in custom queries.
Eliminating it would not be good.