On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 12:19 PM Mattia Verga via devel-announce
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > In accordance with FESCo's Inactive Packager Policy[1], packagers that have 
> > been identified
> > as inactive have a ticket in the find-inactive-packagers repo[2]. One week 
> > after the final
> > release, packagers who remain inactive will be removed from the packager 
> > group. (Note that
> > pagure.io is one of the systems checked for activity, so commenting on your 
> > ticket that you're
> > still around will prevent you from showing up in the second round.)
> >
> > If you have suggestions for improvement, look for the open feature 
> > issues[3] and file an issue
> > in the find-inactive-packagers repo[4] if it's not there already.
> >
> > For the curious, here are the stats from today's run:
> >
> > ### Found 1459 users in the packager group. ###
> > ### Found 606 users with no builds in Koji over the last year. ###
> > ### Found 305 users with no activity in pagure/src.fp.org over the last 
> > year. ###
> > ### Found 282 users which didn't post any message in Fedora Discussion over 
> > the last year. ###
> > ### Found 254 users which also show no activity in Bodhi over the last 
> > year. ###
> > ### Found 234 users which also show no activity in mailing lists over the 
> > last year. ###
> > ### Found 167 users which also show no activity in Bugzilla over the last 
> > year. ###
> >
> > [1] 
> > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Policy_for_inactive_packagers/
> > [2] 
> > https://pagure.io/find-inactive-packagers/issues?tags=inactive_packager&status=Open
> > [3] https://pagure.io/find-inactive-packagers/issues?tags=feature
> > [4] https://pagure.io/find-inactive-packagers/new_issue
> >
>
> This is kind of horrifying, but also I wonder if these people look
> like they're inactive because they're over-relying on Packit to do
> their work.
>
> For example, linux-system-roles got auto-orphaned once because the
> packager set up fire-and-forget Packit configuration years ago and
> they proceeded to do nothing else in Fedora.
>
> It wouldn't surprise me if some Packit adoption is responsible for a
> large chunk of this.

I don't think this can be the case - you still need to minimally
interact with src.fp.o to get packit-created PRs moving, as far as I
know ... so that would count as "activity" here.

Fabio
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