How do we proceed from here? I see the wiki talks about how to voluntarily 
orphan one's own package, and how to take over a package that has *been* 
orphaned. But I don't see instructions about how to declare a clearly abandoned 
package as orphaned.

~ Andrew Toskin
FAS: terrycloth

> /cc yaderv
> 
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 08:10:02PM -0000, Andrew Toskin wrote:
> > There are a couple GNOME Shell extensions that I think ought to be 
> > orphaned. Since I
> already maintain a few other GNOME Shell extensions, I'd be happy to take 
> over.
> > 
> > In the Fedora repos, there are two "sustmi" packages, named for the
> upstream developer's GitHub handle. There's a single listing in the old PKGDB 
> --
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/gnome-shell-extension-... 
> -- but
> it's two (sub?)packages:
> > 
> > * gnome-shell-extension-sustmi-windowoverlay-icons
> > * gnome-shell-extension-sustmi-historymanager-prefix-search
> > 
> > A look on Bugzilla shows requests to update the packages going as far back 
> > as 2013,
> which never got any response from the maintainer:
> >
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?classification=Fedora&product...
> > 
> > The only new builds in Koji over the past few years have been automated mass
> rebuilds. From the changelog, it doesn't seem like there has been any manual 
> updates
> from the maintainer since 2012.
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=925824
> > 
> > I've tried commenting on the Bugzilla threads, and tried sending requests 
> > through
> PKGDB (just before it was deprecated), to be added as a co-maintainer, but I 
> haven't
> gotten any response either.
> > 
> > These packages have been badly neglected for a long time, and no longer 
> > work at all
> on any supported Fedora release. I'd like to get them back in shape.
> > 
> > ~ Andrew Toskin
> > FAS: terrycloth
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