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| == Policy for Orphan and Retired Packages ==
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| When Fedora maintainers do not want or are not able to maintain a package any longer,
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| they can ''orphan'' or ''retire'' the package.
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| In case the package is still useful for Fedora, it should be orphaned.
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| Then other maintainers that are interested in maintaining it,
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| can take ownership of this package.
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| In case the package is no longer useful for Fedora,
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| e.g. because it was renamed, or upstream does not exist anymore,
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| then it should be retired.
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| But this is only possible for development releases such as Branched or Rawhide.
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| Orphaned packages remain in stable releases
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| and are the responsibility of the collective packaging community to maintain.
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| Orphan packages will be retired if they remain orphaned for six weeks.
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| Packages will be retired in Fedora Rawhide and Branched (until the Beta Freeze).
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| Maintainers considering orphaning their packages
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| are encouraged to do it as early in the development cycle as possible.
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| Shortly after the prior release is branched is a good time.
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| === Unorphaning and unretiring packages ===
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| Ownership of an orphaned package can be claimed
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| by any interested packager at any time.
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| They then become responsible for the package.
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| Fedora packages whose rawhide branch has been retired,
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| as well as retired EPEL-only packages,
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| require a re-review
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| if they are retired for more than eight weeks
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| or if there is no previous review of the package.
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| The review is conducted in the same as reviews for new packages. | |
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| No re-review is required to unretire an EPEL branch
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| if the package is still in Fedora.
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| == Guides ==
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| * [[Orphaned package that need new maintainers]]
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| * [[How to remove a package at end of life]]
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| == References ==
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| * https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1332
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| * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-08-27/fesco.2014-08-27-17.00.html
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| === EPEL ===
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| * https://fedorahosted.org/epel/ticket/4
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| * http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/epel/2014-10-31/epel.2014-10-31-20.01.html
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| [[Category:Policy]]
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