On Mon, 2026-02-16 at 06:51 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 6:44 AM Fabio Valentini
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> You do not have to, I believe you can give packit direct commit
> privileges
> and then it's completely hands-free.
> 
> But even if not, that would still mean those users have no builds
> ever, since packit is the registered user for those builds.
> 
The numbers for those without pagure activity is lower (305 vs 606),
but that still means potentially 301 packagers let Packit handle all
their builds and never kick off a build by hand.

IDK if that's great or scary.

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