On 05/27/2009 07:51 PM, Adam Miller wrote:
I recently picked up the firestarter package because it was orphaned
and I know a few people who still use it. There were only a couple of
small bugs opened against it so I figured I would hack at them as soon
as I was able. But this morning there was a bug filed against it to
port it to PolicyKit and I've run into two problems. 1) I know very
little about PolicyKit other than a general overview of the purpose it
serves and 2) I don't think it would really be worth doing all that
work for a package that hasn't had any upstream activity in over 4
years. So my question is this, should I orphan this package such that
someone else who feels the efforts wouldn't be wasted may take the
time to perform the work or should I just retire the package?
If upstream is dead and you are not going to do the work, just close the
bug as WONTFIX. Yes, I filed the RFE in the first place but I wasn't
aware that upstream is dead. So don't let that scare you from continuing
to be the maintainer of it. Of course, if anyone is willing to do the
work, that would be nice but probably not worth the effort if it is
going to be a big patch.
Rahul