Future owners/ACL choices

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Feb 26 17:15:24 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 12:05 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > I like this.  Orphaned packages could default back to open for any Extras 
> > contributor.
> 
> What I'm concerned about here is what to do with orphaned packages
> from a repository standpoint - should they be removed? Should
> builds go to some sort of limbo?
> 
> I'm mostly of the opinion that they shouldn't be kept limping indefinitely
> without an *actual* owner.
Check how FE has handled this:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers

I don't see why this should not be applicable in future.

One problem however: The ACLs prevent volunteers from stepping in and to
take over rsp. to remove a package.

Ralf





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