Disttag for Fedora 7 and beyond

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Fri Jan 5 21:41:39 UTC 2007


On 01/05/2007 01:12 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Jesse Keating schrieb:
>> On Friday 05 January 2007 12:53, Peter Gordon wrote:
>>> Over the past couple of releases we have done mass rebuilds also to
>>> ensure that packages have active maintainers, and not solely for
>>> toolchain fixes/etc. (Though, I don't remember if this was Extras only
>>> or all of Core as well.)
>> Extras only, most often on the heels of a core rebuild for a technical reason.  
>> Usually extended to all of Extras for non-technical reasons.  I'd rather not 
>> continue that pain through the entire combined repo.
> 
> +1, but we need to work out another solution to check if maintainers are
> still around and *active* for real.

Check whether their certs have expired (plus adequate grace period).  If 
renewing every 12 months isn't interesting enough, that number can be 
changed.
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