RATIFIED: CVS Admin with Flags (Version 4)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:32:16 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:

> Warren Togami wrote:
> > FESCO voted to ratify this process during last Thursday's meeting.  I am 
> > posting this on record to reflect the minor changes to the flag 
> > treatment.  Next I will update documentation.
> > 
> > Changes since Version 3:
> 
> Well, again I ask the same question:
> 
> Some questions.
> How does this work with the renamed packages or packages of which
> the maintainer changed several times from initial?
> 
> * Well, there may be the case that the name of the package changed
>    several times (this especially happens for new packages)
> * Maintainers also change.
> * After some long time, the "current" maintainer askes, "well,
>    where is the initial review request?" This becomes a trouble
>    especially when the previous maintainer is missing, some people
>    (like sponsors) puts the package into "orphaned" category,
>    and then some other fedorabugs member takes over the maintainership
>    (and at the time the name of the package changed from initial).

Plus: the original package submitter and reviewer(s) receive bugzilla spam
when old closed tickets are reused for requesting ownership changes.