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Hello guys, |
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just to be sure here "Removals are completely up to the maintainer to |
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decide", with expection of QA removal where the package must be |
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already broken to get punted. |
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If you as developers and users find some package useful you can retake |
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the maintainership (or became proxy-maint) which also expects you to |
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take care of the bugs (QA can prune it even if you take the |
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maintainership but ignore failures [even if your personal feeling is |
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that it is corner case, it is for QA to deicde]). |
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For dead upstream packages there are quite few problems you, who |
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support keeping it in tree, seem not to notice. The distro patches |
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will blob up (with each distro having different stuff) as things break |
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with shiny new updates (and no saying it builds with older xyz does |
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not make it work), users have no chance to report problems with the |
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package elsewhere than to our bugzilla, etc, etc. This is the reason |
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why the fedorahosted.org was fired up. So if you care about the |
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package, take your time, fire up VCS/homepage/tracker there and try to |
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work on it or find someone else interested to help you with becaming |
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at least pseodo-upstream. |
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Cheers |
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Tom |