On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:30 PM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com> wrote:
As long as we have no idea if the other maintainers are active, I am
strongly against the automation. I've been there. Followed nor
responsive policy just to find out later that instead of orphaning the
package, next inactive maintainer became owner. Very frustrating ....

I think it may depend on the type of package, for some SIGs at least I think auto-retiring a needed working package is also rather frustrating since it generates extra work for the SIG to recover that package.

Talking of which I just filed two review requests for ghc-fgl (which I had untired last year) and ghc-setlocale:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1678677
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1678684

which will unbreak xmonad and darcs. :-)

Jens