[Fedora-legacy-list] Re: Initial Scope Determination

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:30, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> It seems to me that, depending on the urgency of the fix, the owner
> of the most recent rpm changelog entry ought to be given first shot.
> Of course, if that person is @redhat.com, then a new maintainer will
> need to be found. Still, I think we want to avoid setting up a
> situation where "first caller wins," especially if the previous
> maintainer is still interesting in providing package support.

How about this then.  The Wiki would be pre-populated with the name in 
parens () of the last non-redhat changelog author.  Until a date shows 
up, it's still kinda up for grabs, to touch on your below statement.  
If the last author is still active, and sees the notice sent to the 
legacy-request list or something like that, he can then tack on a date 
and thus the package is picked up and accounted for.

> The tricky situation would be the announcement of an urgent security
> fix (i.e., an exploit is already in the wild) and the previous
> changelog entrant is hiking Mt. McKinley or has taken a lucrative job
> in Redmond, WA. :-) Then the wiki could provide a relatively clear
> channel of communication for volunteers looking to get a patched rpm
> into the repository.

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