On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 03:42:51PM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 5:49 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:08 AM Maxwell G <maxw...@gtmx.me> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > It seems https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/subscription-manager (and 
> > > related packages) were orphaned last week. subscription-manager is needed 
> > > in Fedora to support 
> > > https://rpm-software-management.github.io/mock/Feature-rhelchroots.html 
> > > (Mock builds for EPEL in RHEL chroots) and UBI podman containers 
> > > (including fedrq's rhel8 and rhel9 containers) for users with Red Hat or 
> > > free Red Hat Developer subscriptions. This package will be retired from 
> > > rawhide in 6 weeks if nobody takes action, which would be unfortunate.
> > >
> >
> > I took it for now, but we need someone to actually care about the
> > package. It looks like this is one of those packages where it's
> > "maintained" by packit and ignored by its actual maintainers.
> 
> Can we get the script that handles these "orphanings" improved?
> All I could tell from looking at the package was that the orphan
> reason was "Orphaned by releng".

yeah, thats not... good.
We should adjust it to say the main admin was inactive and link to the
infra ticket for that work.

> I tried looking at closed releng tickets, and didn't find anything obvious.
> I tried looking at find-inactive-packager tickets, but searching for
> "subscription-manager" yielded zero results.
> 
> Could the script (whatever script it was in this case) be improved to
> at least add a link to a ticket to the "orphan reason"?

This was due to the main admin of that package being removed from the
packager group for inactivity...

https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/12277

Last cycle I did a devel-announce with the list of newly orphaned
packages. That seems to still need doing.

kevin

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