On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 2:03 PM Pierre-Yves Chibon <pin...@pingoured.fr> wrote:
>
> Good Morning Everyone,
>
> A little while ago we have received the request on the infra issue tracker to
> remove all maintainers of retired packages [1].
>
> So today I decided to look at what this would look like and wrote a script 
> that
> queries PDC for the list of all branches on all projects [2], gather from it a
> list of all the packages that are retired on all their branches (so all 
> branches
> are ``active=false``).
> For each of these retired project, it queries dist-git to find out if they 
> still
> have maintainers in addition to the ``orphan`` user.

Hey pingou,

I've been wondering about the same thing a while back.

> - Do we have a documented way to mark modules as orphaned or retired?

I think we do. I seem to remember seeing "dead.module" files in some
module repositories I looked at ...

> - Should we orphan all the RPM packages that are retired but not orphaned?

I think removing maintainers from packages where all branches are
inactive is a good idea. Those only add noise when querying anything,
in my experience.
I'd support an automatic / scripted procedure to remove all
maintainers from all-branches-retired packages, if you decide to bring
this to FESCo :)

So long as we make sure that if any branch is still not retired we
don't modify the maintainer list, I'm all for it.

Fabio
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