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2007 October 18 FESCo Meeting

Members

Present

  • Brian Pepple (bpepple)
  • Jason Tibbitts (tibbs)
  • Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
  • Jesse Keating (f13)
  • Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
  • Christian Iseli (c4chris)
  • Josh Boyer (jwb)
  • Bill Nottingham (notting)
  • Tom Callaway (spot)
  • Warren Togami (warren)

Absent

  • David Woodhouse (dwmw2)
  • Jeremy Katz (jeremy)
  • Christopher Aillon (caillon)

Summary

Orphaned Packages

  • Discussed some issues with orphaned packages:
  • Packages that are orphaned in a stable maintained release (ie. F6 or F7), and aren't picked up by another maintainer, will only have security updates (handled by the security team) until EOL.
  • Reminder: In CVS, the devel branches are marked with a dead.package file. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/PackageEndOfLife
  • Beginning with F9, orphaned packages will be removed up to Feature Freeze, after feature freeze orphans will not be removed and must be picked up by somebody (with reasonable exceptions).

IRC log can be found at: http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco/FESCo-2007-10-18.html