On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 5:44 PM Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Dne 11. 02. 19 v 4:33 Jens-Ulrik Petersen napsal(a): > > I have to say I am not really enjoying this ongoing aggressive package > retirement process. > If packages are not broken and needed by other packages, then I don't see > why we are hurrying to break things. > I think a better process might be for maintainers orphaning packages to > contact dependent package maintainers directly asking them to take over the > package they want to drop. > > The orphaning procedure [1] states: "5. Announce on devel which package > you orphaned, so that others have a chance to take over as maintainer." > This sounds reasonable to me, close to what you propose. > In theory yes, but in practice I am rather more likely to notice a direct private mail than a mailing list post. I had another idea: delegating the retirement of packages to SIGs when appropriate, but of course that may requires a clearer mapping of SIG packages. Jens
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