Hi folks, I've opened https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574 [https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574] to facilitate assumption ownership of the Sugar packages in Fedora, most of which are de-facto abandoned by the previous maintainer, erikos, who has not authenticated with his FAS account since March of 2017, nearly three years ago. I can't find a working e-mail address for him, and @chimosky and I are trying to get the remaining core Sugar packages updated to the current version, before the F34 freeze happens. Therefore, time is of the essence. The only two e-mail addresses I could find for Simon were both aliases, simon@laptop.org [mailto:simon@laptop.org] and simon@sugarlabs.org [mailto:simon@sugarlabs.org]. Both are no longer functional, nor have they been for a couple of years. As an aside, I'd like to propose that FESCO consider revising the requirements to simplify/expedite assumption of packages which have clearly been abandoned by their previous maintainers. Perhaps "has not authenticated to FAS in 2+ years" could be considered a form of abandonment? This subject seems worthy of discussion at the next FESCO meeting. $ ./fedora_active_user.py --user erikos FAS username: aperezbios FAS password for aperezbios: Last login in FAS: erikos 2017-03-10 Last action on koji: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 tag_package_owners entry revoked by oscar Last package update on bodhi: No activity found on bodhi
Hi Alex,
I agree that in these cases an immediate orphaning of the packages is justified, as the packager in question is clearly no longer active.
You might want to ask a provenpackager to push your fix directly to dist got though, to get the changes in place in time.
Cheers,
Dan
On February 7, 2021 6:28:13 PM UTC, Alex Perez aperez@alexperez.com wrote:
Hi folks, I've opened https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574 [https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574] to facilitate assumption ownership of the Sugar packages in Fedora, most of which are de-facto abandoned by the previous maintainer, erikos, who has not authenticated with his FAS account since March of 2017, nearly three years ago. I can't find a working e-mail address for him, and @chimosky and I are trying to get the remaining core Sugar packages updated to the current version, before the F34 freeze happens. Therefore, time is of the essence. The only two e-mail addresses I could find for Simon were both aliases, simon@laptop.org [mailto:simon@laptop.org] and simon@sugarlabs.org [mailto:simon@sugarlabs.org]. Both are no longer functional, nor have they been for a couple of years. As an aside, I'd like to propose that FESCO consider revising the requirements to simplify/expedite assumption of packages which have clearly been abandoned by their previous maintainers. Perhaps "has not authenticated to FAS in 2+ years" could be considered a form of abandonment? This subject seems worthy of discussion at the next FESCO meeting. $ ./fedora_active_user.py --user erikos FAS username: aperezbios FAS password for aperezbios: Last login in FAS: erikos 2017-03-10 Last action on koji: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 tag_package_owners entry revoked by oscar Last package update on bodhi: No activity found on bodhi
On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 6:28 PM Alex Perez aperez@alexperez.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I've opened https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2574 to facilitate assumption ownership of the Sugar packages in Fedora, most of which are de-facto abandoned by the previous maintainer, erikos, who has not authenticated with his FAS account since March of 2017, nearly three years ago. I can't find a working e-mail address for him, and @chimosky and I are trying to get the remaining core Sugar packages updated to the current version, before the F34 freeze happens. Therefore, time is of the essence. The only two e-mail addresses I could find for Simon were both aliases, simon@laptop.org and simon@sugarlabs.org. Both are no longer functional, nor have they been for a couple of years.
As an aside, I'd like to propose that FESCO consider revising the requirements to simplify/expedite assumption of packages which have clearly been abandoned by their previous maintainers. Perhaps "has not authenticated to FAS in 2+ years" could be considered a form of abandonment? This subject seems worthy of discussion at the next FESCO meeting.
$ ./fedora_active_user.py --user erikos
FAS username: aperezbios FAS password for aperezbios: Last login in FAS: erikos 2017-03-10
Last action on koji: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 tag_package_owners entry revoked by oscar
Last package update on bodhi: No activity found on bodhi
Yet you didn't reach out to a co-maintainer such as myself?
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