Dne 13. 02. 19 v 7:33 Jens-Ulrik Petersen napsal(a): > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 5:44 PM Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com > <mailto: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 understand your point. OTOH, send email to devel is significantly easier then listing dependent packages and emailing their maintainers. V. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
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