On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, 17:21 Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@fedoraproject.org wrote:

>
> This assumes there is a queue of ready and willing (and competent)
> volunteers to take on packages that get automatically orphaned. Is
> that true? I doubt it. If those people exist, why aren't they already
> offering to co-maintain packages, or responding to some of those open
> bugs?
>

A possible answer to that question could be that no-ones going to volunteer
to do work that they assume someone else already has in hand.

Also, it's hard to volunteer to co-maintain a package which has a
non-responsive maintainer, because there is no one to grant you access.
For simple packages that only require a minor version update, invoking and
following through the non-responsive maintainer process is often more
effort than the outstanding work required on the package.

>
-- 
Peter Oliver
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