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Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Feb 23 19:35:00 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:24 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the right thing to do in this kind of case is to:
> 
> 1. Move the package into extras.  If no owner *immediately* steps
> forward, 
> tag it as "unmaintained".  Unmaintained modules sit in CVS but never
> get 
> built.
> 
> 2. Come up with a mechanism for notifying folks about the
> unmaintained 
> modules.
> 
> 3. If a module is unmaintained for a certain period of time, we may
> choose 
> to dump it from CVS.  Or not.
> 
> That way, something like xloadimage gets archived until that time
> if/when 
> someone chooses to pick it back up.
> 
> Just thinkin'.
> 
> 

Seems a bit overkill.  Why not just a mail to fedora-list or something
asking "If we drop this, will anybody pick it up for Extras?"  If nobody
answers in a day or so, bombs away.  If somebody does speak up, hand
them the CVS module.

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