Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-25 Thread Henrik Nordström
ons 2011-11-23 klockan 12:30 +0100 skrev Vít Ondruch: > it is interesting that there are still some packages > from F14 and older Fedora releases. That is sign that these packages are > un-maintained and they are FTBFS. Indeed, and many more are. But we do have a process for dealing with unmain

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:49:00 +0100, I wrote: > [...] > some level of perseverance, some sort of prove that they are willing to > [...] s/prove/proof/ -- Not an attempt at fixing all embarrassing typos, however. ;) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:18:11 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > I didn't imply that there should be less documentation or guidelines, > only that it's more than a person can "grok" at one time. That's too vague for me to understand it. Some topics are covered by entire books, for example even several

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-24 Thread David Tardon
This is just a collection of random thougths on some of the ideas you presented in this thread. > Nobody is putting burden on anyone other then the maintainers themselves. > > Either they do it directly to themselves ... or it's being > done by other sloppy/non responsive/absent maintainers indire

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-23 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 08:18 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:47:32 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > > > >> but that's a separate problem. The shear amount of > >> documentation/guidelines there are. > > > > Hey, :) you kno

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-23 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:18:11AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:47:32 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > > > >> but that's a separate problem. The shear amount of > >> documentation/guidelines there are. > > > > Hey, :)

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-23 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:54:05 -0700 Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:24:46 +0100 > Till Maas wrote: > > > But I remember reports that contained similar information. > > Therefore some kind of script must have existed. Maybe it was > > related to some FTBFS reports where someone else r

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:47:32 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > >> but that's a separate problem. The shear amount of >> documentation/guidelines there are. > > Hey, :) you know what? Troublesome newbies would like even more > documentation, gui

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-23 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 22.11.2011 18:55, Jason L Tibbitts III napsal(a): >> "VO" == Vít Ondruch writes: > VO> It would be reasonable, on the beginning of each development cycle, > VO> to publish a list of packages which were not touched by it > VO> maintainer in previous release. > > I certainly hope you real

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-23 Thread Emanuel Rietveld
and non-responsive, > Alexander Kurtakov > > > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Kevin Fenzi" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:36:39 AM > Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken... > &g

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:47:32 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > but that's a separate problem. The shear amount of > documentation/guidelines there are. Hey, :) you know what? Troublesome newbies would like even more documentation, guidelines and policy documents. Also a book about koji, bodhi, package

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:24:46 +0100 Till Maas wrote: > But I remember reports that contained similar information. Therefore > some kind of script must have existed. Maybe it was related to some > FTBFS reports where someone else reported that his script would have > reported certain packages to b

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> "RS" == Richard Shaw writes: > > RS> Yes. If the informal review is for an existing packager then, > RS> there's no guarantee that a sponsor will even see that informal > RS> review because there's no requirement for a sponsor to

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "RS" == Richard Shaw writes: RS> Yes. If the informal review is for an existing packager then, RS> there's no guarantee that a sponsor will even see that informal RS> review because there's no requirement for a sponsor to approve the RS> review request in that scenario. You must have misun

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:30:47 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > How does someone who needs to be sponsored make sure that their > informal reviews get noticed? Not everyone will 'toot their own horn' > so to speak. That doesn't mean they are not a good prospect as a > packager. Similar answer as before

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> "RS" == Richard Shaw writes: > > RS> How does someone who needs to be sponsored make sure that their > RS> informal reviews get noticed? Not everyone will 'toot their own > RS> horn' so to speak. That doesn't mean they are not a

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "RS" == Richard Shaw writes: RS> How does someone who needs to be sponsored make sure that their RS> informal reviews get noticed? Not everyone will 'toot their own RS> horn' so to speak. That doesn't mean they are not a good prospect as RS> a packager. Well, the documentation says to incl

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:25:35 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > >> [...] >> question: How does a sponsor find future sponsors? Just because I >> complete an informal or formal review doesn't mean that a sponsor sees >> it, unless there's some sy

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 06:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> > That problem can be solved technically as in be made transparent to >> > reports and maintainers ( reporters using our bugzilla but >> > maintainers using their relevant upstream one ) > Not sure how off hand. ;( > The rough idea I had in my head

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:25:35 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > [...] > question: How does a sponsor find future sponsors? Just because I > complete an informal or formal review doesn't mean that a sponsor sees > it, unless there's some system that provides visibility that I'm > unaware of. Well, one w

Re: Getting Sponsored (was Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...)

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:26:27 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > Also along these lines... > > Perhaps this has been discussed before I'm not aware of it but do we > really need to hold up a package because the submitter needs a > sponsor? > > What I mean by that is, if I'm not misunderstanding the pro

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:59:58 +, TH (Tom) wrote: > > Uh, come on, ... package submitters waiting on the NEEDSPONSOR list > > could _really_ work a little bit more actively on persuading potential > > sponsors of their packaging skills. Instead, some wait silently for > > months without doing an

Re: Getting Sponsored (was Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...)

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
Also along these lines... Perhaps this has been discussed before I'm not aware of it but do we really need to hold up a package because the submitter needs a sponsor? What I mean by that is, if I'm not misunderstanding the process, that a person who submits their first package must be sponsored b

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:51:52AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:40:52 +0100 > Till Maas wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:03:43PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > This has come up nearly every release cycle. Problem is that nobody > > > can seem to agree on what

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/22/2011 11:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Michael Schwendt >> wrote: >>> >>> And still there have been self-nominations before. >>> You could look up FESCo tickets of past nominations. >> >> I never

Getting Sponsored (was Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...)

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
I'd like to add/note: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group#Become_a_co-maintainer is another way to become a packager. Simply work on/with an existing maintainer on their package (submit bug reports, help test, submit patches, etc) and then ask them if the

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jon Ciesla
>> "TH" == Tom Hughes writes: > > TH> As somebody who is in exactly that situation all I can say is that > TH> if doing informal reviews is an essential prerequisite to getting > TH> sponsored then the wiki could be a lot clearer. Currently it reads > TH> more like it's just one thing that ma

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:40:52 +0100 Till Maas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:03:43PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > This has come up nearly every release cycle. Problem is that nobody > > can seem to agree on what an appropriate "sign of life" would be, no > > has made a serious FESCo pr

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:16:30 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Hum not so sure that will effectively work at least the cleanup > process needs have take place before we start the next development > cycle atleast no later then GA so basically the "performance" review > of the maintainer would

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:57:24AM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > First of all why do I need to come up with a concrete proposal to FESCO > why dont they come up with something to try to improve the distribution. Because demanding that other people do work generally doesn't result in t

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 11:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Michael Schwendt > wrote: >> >> And still there have been self-nominations before. >> You could look up FESCo tickets of past nominations. > > I never thought about that, perhaps it should be added to the contributo

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 05:27 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > First of all why do I need to come up with a concrete proposal to FESCO > why dont they come up with something to try to improve the distribution. > > Does that governing body only exist to say yay or nay to others proposals? FESCo exists

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:05:37 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > >> 2011/11/22 Bruno Wolff III: >> > One area where we could probably do more advertising for is getting new >> > packagers via the co-maintainer route. I think most of the new pack

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "TH" == Tom Hughes writes: TH> As somebody who is in exactly that situation all I can say is that TH> if doing informal reviews is an essential prerequisite to getting TH> sponsored then the wiki could be a lot clearer. Currently it reads TH> more like it's just one thing that may help. It

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Tom Hughes
On 22/11/11 17:53, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Uh, come on, ... package submitters waiting on the NEEDSPONSOR list > could _really_ work a little bit more actively on persuading potential > sponsors of their packaging skills. Instead, some wait silently for > months without doing any package review

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "VO" == Vít Ondruch writes: VO> It would be reasonable, on the beginning of each development cycle, VO> to publish a list of packages which were not touched by it VO> maintainer in previous release. I certainly hope you realize that there are very many packages in the distribution that sim

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:05:37 -0600, RS (Richard) wrote: > 2011/11/22 Bruno Wolff III: > > One area where we could probably do more advertising for is getting new > > packagers via the co-maintainer route. I think most of the new packagers > > still come in by packaging a new package. I think we re

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:05:37AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > 2011/11/22 Bruno Wolff III : > > One area where we could probably do more advertising for is getting new > > packagers via the co-maintainer route. I think most of the new packagers > > still come in by packaging a new package. I think

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:32:56 +0100, VO (Vít) wrote: > I remember > at leas one example from history when I was not able to reach the > maintainer and at the end he was quite angry that I was so daring to > call him unresponsive, even though I wanted just to help him. Also, > there are other pa

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 04:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:38:23 +, >"\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" wrote: >> I think the only way to achieve something like this for maintainership >> we need to drop the ownership module so either nobody owns a >> package/component in the pro

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:05:37 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > To bring it to a more personal level, I have no idea if I've done or > proven myself enough to become a sponsor or not. If I am deficient in > an area, there's currently no formal feedback mechanism for me to know > in what areas I ne

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Richard Shaw
2011/11/22 Bruno Wolff III : > One area where we could probably do more advertising for is getting new > packagers via the co-maintainer route. I think most of the new packagers > still come in by packaging a new package. I think we really want most of > the new packagers coming in as co-maintainer

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:38:23 +, "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" wrote: > > I think the only way to achieve something like this for maintainership > we need to drop the ownership module so either nobody owns a > package/component in the project or relevant SIG owns the package. We can alr

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 22.11.2011 17:44, Chris Adams napsal(a): > Once upon a time, Vít Ondruch said: >> It would be reasonable, on the beginning of each development cycle, to >> publish a list of packages which were not touched by it maintainer in >> previous release. For all these packages, new co-maintainer could

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Vít Ondruch said: > It would be reasonable, on the beginning of each development cycle, to > publish a list of packages which were not touched by it maintainer in > previous release. For all these packages, new co-maintainer could > stepped up and they would be granted the co-

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Till Maas
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 05:32:56PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > It would be reasonable, on the beginning of each development cycle, to > publish a list of packages which were not touched by it maintainer in > previous release. For all these packages, new co-maintainer could > stepped up and they

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 21.11.2011 21:56, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" napsal(a): > Given that I'm migrating bunch of legacy init script to native systemd > ones and I have come many packages that seem that maintainer(s) have > deserted them but for some bizarre reason we still continue to package > and keep rolling them b

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:57:03 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken... > > On 11/22/2011 01:48 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov w

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 01:48 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > > - Original Message - > The problem here is that in my eyes there are no inactive contributors and > there shouldn't be anything preventing people from contributing (even if it's > one update per year). > While I agree that projects tha

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:34:50 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken... > > On 11/22/2011 12:49 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 12:49 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > Hmm, haven't this started with if you're not ready to reply to every > bugreport we will ban you because we don't want your contribution? If you are referring to " Well if people want more controversial proposal of sign of live that's relativ

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 12:35 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > Comments inline. > > - Original Message - >> > We seem to disagree here. I value every maintainer even one that steps in > once in a year. And yes I value him more than someone that would open 10 > bugreports without instructions how

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 2:42:37 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken... > > On 11/22/2011 12:37 PM, Marcela Maslanova

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:57:24 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken... > > On 11/22/2011 09:40 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 12:37 PM, Marcela Maslanova wrote: > You don't improve distribution, when you start bullying contributors. Bunch > of people were already annoyed with your proposal. Please provide explanation further how I was bullying contributors. Thanks JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fe

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 10:18 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > Excerpts from "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"'s message of Tue Nov 22 00:28:32 +0100 > 2011: >> On 11/21/2011 11:21 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >>> On 11/21/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: I understand this thread as a comment on imp

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Marcela Maslanova
- Original Message - > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:57:24 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken... > > On 11/22/2011 09:40 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
Comments inline. - Original Message - > From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:36:53 PM > Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken... > > On 11/22/2011 08:51 AM, Aleksand

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 09:40 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/22/2011 04:51 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> On 11/21/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >>> I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection of >>> inactive maintainers and unmaintained packages. >> It is indeed inten

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/22/2011 08:51 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > Can I be added to the list of maintainers that need help very badly from the > beginning? If such an list existed I dont see why that should be a problem. > I maintain a number of packages that are very low in the Java stack and would > force

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Stanislav Ochotnicky
Excerpts from "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"'s message of Tue Nov 22 00:28:32 +0100 2011: > On 11/21/2011 11:21 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > On 11/21/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection of > >> inactive maintainers and unm

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/22/2011 04:51 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/21/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection of >> inactive maintainers and unmaintained packages. > > It is indeed intended as such. I would recommend you stop this thr

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:33 +0100, MT (Miloslav) wrote: > > Nothing is in place to detect inactive maintainers automatically. > > We don't really need absolute automation - if a package is not > actively maintained but nobody notices, does it really matter?[1] Yes. Users notice, but they report

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:09:36 +0100, RH (Reindl) wrote: > > > Am 21.11.2011 23:50, schrieb Michael Schwendt: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:58:50 +0100, RH (Reindl) wrote: > > > >> +1 > >> > >> nothing is more frustrating for users as ignored bugreports reintroduced > >> from > >> release to relase

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-22 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
esponsive, Alexander Kurtakov - Original Message - From: "Kevin Fenzi" To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:36:39 AM Subject: Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken... On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:03:43 -0800 Jesse Keating wrote: >

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > Instead of everybody that are doing needed work in the distribution > having to run around after maintainers trying to find out if they are > still active or not and initiate the unresponsive maintainer policy, > cant we revert the process and have maintainer(s) havin

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/21/2011 11:21 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/21/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection of >> inactive maintainers and unmaintained packages. > > It is indeed intended as such. > BTW does anyone have any insight o

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/21/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > I understand this thread as a comment on improving the detection of > inactive maintainers and unmaintained packages. It is indeed intended as such. JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/l

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/21/2011 11:00 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > [1] It does matter because there is a risk of security vulnerabilities > being unaddressed - but, hopefully, at least for the frequently used > packages somebody would notice. This in itself should be valid enough point to have proper clean up proce

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/21/2011 10:36 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:03:43 -0800 > Jesse Keating wrote: > >> This has come up nearly every release cycle. Problem is that nobody >> can seem to agree on what an appropriate "sign of life" would be, no >> has made a serious FESCo proposal for a contri

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.11.2011 23:50, schrieb Michael Schwendt: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:58:50 +0100, RH (Reindl) wrote: > >> +1 >> >> nothing is more frustrating for users as ignored bugreports reintroduced from >> release to relase while th eonly response is from bugzapper about EOL of the >> release > > Well

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Nothing is in place to detect inactive maintainers automatically. We don't really need absolute automation - if a package is not actively maintained but nobody notices, does it really matter?[1] The case that has motivated this particul

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:58:50 +0100, RH (Reindl) wrote: > +1 > > nothing is more frustrating for users as ignored bugreports reintroduced from > release to relase while th eonly response is from bugzapper about EOL of the > release Well, that's not the same problem as this thread is about. There

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:03:43PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > This has come up nearly every release cycle. Problem is that nobody > can seem to agree on what an appropriate "sign of life" would be, no > has made a serious FESCo proposal for a contrived sign of life. I remember that there has

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 22:22:56 +, "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" wrote: > > Well comes logically to me that at least the maintainer would be > stripped of those packages he is ignoring. That doesn't help. It is reasonable to orphan a package that isn't being adequately maintained, but remo

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:03:43 -0800 Jesse Keating wrote: > This has come up nearly every release cycle. Problem is that nobody > can seem to agree on what an appropriate "sign of life" would be, no > has made a serious FESCo proposal for a contrived sign of life. > > I don't think anybody disagr

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jesse Keating
On Nov 21, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > >> So if you are serious about wanting this fixed, draft a proposal, figure out >> who's going to do the coding work, and bring it to FESCo. > > I would think this work directly falls under releng jurisdiction ( given > that releng is

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jesse Keating
On Nov 21, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > > So who's ultimately responsible for making sure that packagers are > following the current guidelines set by FPC releng? "the community". You see, the problem with a volunteer community is that "enforcement" basically boils down to

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/21/2011 10:24 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >> "JBG" == Jóhann B Guðmundsson writes: > JBG> How does FPC handle packagers that violate the packaging > JBG> guidelines? > > FPC is not tasked with enforcing the packaging guidelines. So who's ultimately responsible for making sure that

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "JBG" == Jóhann B Guðmundsson writes: JBG> How does FPC handle packagers that violate the packaging JBG> guidelines? FPC is not tasked with enforcing the packaging guidelines. - J< -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/21/2011 09:58 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > +1 > > nothing is more frustrating for users as ignored bugreports reintroduced from > release to relase while th eonly response is from bugzapper about EOL of the > release That's one symptom of the underlying problem and with my QA hat on I can tel

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/21/2011 10:03 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > This has come up nearly every release cycle. Problem is that nobody can seem > to agree on what an appropriate "sign of life" would be, no has made a > serious FESCo proposal for a contrived sign of life. > > I don't think anybody disagrees (well ma

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jesse Keating
On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: > On 11/21/2011 09:25 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> Unconvincing. To "reassure ownership" periodicially won't be sufficient. >> It would be just another button to click (like FAS password or cert >> renewal) and would not guarantee that the

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.11.2011 22:53, schrieb "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson": > On 11/21/2011 09:25 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> Unconvincing. To "reassure ownership" periodicially won't be sufficient. >> It would be just another button to click (like FAS password or cert >> renewal) and would not guarantee that the p

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/21/2011 09:25 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Unconvincing. To "reassure ownership" periodicially won't be sufficient. > It would be just another button to click (like FAS password or cert > renewal) and would not guarantee that the packages would be maintained > properly and that tickets would

Re: Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:02 +, JBG (Jóhann) wrote: > Instead of everybody that are doing needed work in the distribution > having to run around after maintainers trying to find out if they are > still active or not and initiate the unresponsive maintainer policy, > cant we revert the proce

Fedora clean up process seems to be seriously broken...

2011-11-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Given that I'm migrating bunch of legacy init script to native systemd ones and I have come many packages that seem that maintainer(s) have deserted them but for some bizarre reason we still continue to package and keep rolling them between release and now I came across bug 738442 which serious