Hi,
So this packager Bernard Johnson (bjohnson) disappeared and his email (bjohnson@symetrix.com) is dead. "Symetrix.com" is unmaintained and the company listed in the whois "Symetrix Consulting" is nowhere to be found in the US (where bjohnson says he's located in FAS). The company behind "symetrixconsulting.com" seems unrelated and located in India. The company behind "symetrix.co" told me they have no employee by that name.
So what happens in this case?
I am interested in taking over the BackupPC package which needs a simple fix in EPEL7 (no one upstream seems to care about the Fedora packaging, but my company needs it). I would need a sponsor too.
But again: what happens when a packager goes dark before orphaning or retiring her packages? Has this been seriously discussed? What if they get seriously ill or worse (the Fedora project is now sufficiently big and old that statistically, this could happen)?
Regards,
Benjamin Lefoul FAS: lef
On 02/06/16 08:41, Benjamin Lefoul wrote:
But again: what happens when a packager goes dark before orphaning or retiring her packages? Has this been seriously discussed? What if they get seriously ill or worse (the Fedora project is now sufficiently big and old that statistically, this could happen)?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers
Tom
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 07:41:31 +0000 Benjamin Lefoul benjamin.lefoul@nwise.se wrote:
Hi,
So this packager Bernard Johnson (bjohnson) disappeared and his email (bjohnson@symetrix.com) is dead. "Symetrix.com" is unmaintained and the company listed in the whois "Symetrix Consulting" is nowhere to be found in the US (where bjohnson says he's located in FAS). The company behind "symetrixconsulting.com" seems unrelated and located in India. The company behind "symetrix.co" told me they have no employee by that name.
So what happens in this case?
I am interested in taking over the BackupPC package which needs a simple fix in EPEL7 (no one upstream seems to care about the Fedora packaging, but my company needs it). I would need a sponsor too.
But again: what happens when a packager goes dark before orphaning or retiring her packages? Has this been seriously discussed? What if they get seriously ill or worse (the Fedora project is now sufficiently big and old that statistically, this could happen)?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers
Dan
Hello, Benjamin.
On Thursday, 02 June 2016 at 09:41, Benjamin Lefoul wrote:
Hi,
So this packager Bernard Johnson (bjohnson) disappeared and his email (bjohnson@symetrix.com) is dead.
[...]
I am interested in taking over the BackupPC package which needs a simple fix in EPEL7 (no one upstream seems to care about the Fedora packaging, but my company needs it). I would need a sponsor too.
That is one of the best reasons to become the maintainer of a package. I'd suggest reading up on how to become Fedora packager: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_get_sponsored_into_the_packager_group
But again: what happens when a packager goes dark before orphaning or retiring her packages? Has this been seriously discussed? What if they get seriously ill or worse (the Fedora project is now sufficiently big and old that statistically, this could happen)?
We have this policy in place: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers
Regards, Dominik
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