Offering packages for co-maintenance or adoption

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 18:57:33 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/OrphanedPackages
 
> >  Look in the list archives (February 20th), the message
> > with the subject "Orphanizing the OrphanedPackages Wiki page") is the
> > announcement that the page is unmaintained.
> 
> <sigh> And the page had not be updated. I'd really appreciate some
> professionalism and some people exhibiting responsibility. </sigh>

Well, what update? A warning at the top that "mschwendt no longer
is subscribed to the page"? ;o) That would be strange. It's a Wiki.
Anyone [in EditGroup] can touch the page and update it if things are
out-of-date. And handling orphans and related cleanup [1] is something
somebody else might have wanted to do.

In retrospect, I should have deleted the page. There have never
been official policies on orphaned packages, because it's a topic
that hasn't seen buy-in from [Extras'] FESCo.

[1] Editing owners.list when packagers announced orphans without
updating owners.list. Announcing discovered orphans which have
gone unnoticed for various reasons. Reassigning and replying to
tickets filed about orphans. Marking orphans dead.package prior to
next branch of devel. Deleting long-time orphans from the
repositories.