On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 05:56, Ben Rosser wrote: > Hi, > > What is the right thing to do when a package's review is approved, but > the package never gets imported into the distribution because the > packager subsequently becomes non-responsive? > > Is the non-responsive maintainer policy appropriate, or should the > review be resubmitted entirely? > > I've seen this in a few places and not been entirely sure what to do, > as this isn't entirely spelled out in our policies. But the specific > example I'm looking at right now is ocaml-re > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174036), which was > approved back in 2015 but has not been imported. > > Now the contributor in question (Jon Ludlam) hasn't been sponsored, > but they've also been generally unresponsive to other review requests > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172771). I also sent Jon > an email inquiring about the state of his copr repository providing > these packages (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jonludlam/opam/) > about a year ago and never heard back, so... technically I guess I > could proceed with the non-responsive maintainer policy. But is that > the right thing to do?
If he wasn't sponsored, then he couldn't have requested the package repository to be created in Fedora git, so technically I think you (or anyone else) could open another review request, have it approved and import the package themselves. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
