I was asked at the meeting a couple of weeks ago to come up with some standard text we can use for bugs filed against orphaned packages. Here's my draft:
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This bug has been filed against an orphaned package - that is, a package which has no currently active maintainer. We are happy to accept your report, but the fact that the package is orphaned means you may unfortunately be unlikely to receive a positive response. If you are a Fedora packager already, perhaps you might consider adopting this package. If you believe this bug could have serious consequences beyond this package, please report it to the 'test' mailing list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test , explaining that you need to draw attention to an important bug in an orphaned package.
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Does this look OK to everyone? Anything else that should be mentioned? Thanks!
On 02/08/2010 07:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
This bug has been filed against an orphaned package - that is, a package which has no currently active maintainer. We are happy to accept your report, but the fact that the package is orphaned means you may unfortunately be unlikely to receive a positive response.
"/may/ unfortunately be /unlikely/" is redundant. Try, "... but unfortunately, the fact that the package is orphaned means it is unlikely you will receive a positive response."
Other than that, it looks great.
jik
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 21:07 -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
On 02/08/2010 07:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
This bug has been filed against an orphaned package - that is, a package which has no currently active maintainer. We are happy to accept your report, but the fact that the package is orphaned means you may unfortunately be unlikely to receive a positive response.
"may unfortunately be unlikely" is redundant. Try, "... but unfortunately, the fact that the package is orphaned means it is unlikely you will receive a positive response."
Oh, yeah, I got lost in re-editing that sentence, heh. Well spotted! thanks.
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