On Аўт, 26 жні 2025, Maxwell G wrote:
Aug 26, 2025 03:24:04 Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com>:
The package
still belongs to 'orphan' and none of the package maintainers
received a
note about it.
They should eventually receive the "Orphaned packages looking for
new maintainers" email where they are bcced.
However, gmail has a tendency to merge that email with the list
email and that usually makes such email avoid the inbox :(
Hi everyone,
I don't use Gmail, but I've heard about this problem before, so it'd
be good to try and workaround it. Would it be helpful if I sent a
separate email that only had the affected maintainers BCCed and sent
another one to the mailing list, so they're technically two separate
emails and don't get merged by Gmail? The first one would still have
Reply-to set to the mailing list, but replies might not get threaded
properly since the first message was not also sent to the mailing
list, but that trade off might be worth it.
I think it is a better approach than the current one.
Another idea is to write a script to send individual emails to each
affected maintainer or SIG using the data at
https://a.gtmx.me/orphans/orphans.json that says something along the
lines of "Automation has determined that you co-maintain the following
orphaned packages or that another package you maintain depends on
them. <List of packages>. See <link to orphans report> report more
information." That would be a project for less-busy Future Maxwell,
but I think it could provide value.
If you do this, maybe it is better to tell that "A package %s you are
marked as a maintainer for, has got orphaned by their main administrator
%d weeks ago. The package is now owned by the 'orphan' user and will be
retired from Fedora in %d weeks. Please make sure to change main
administrator of your package to a valid Fedora packager before that. If
not done so, following packages will be under threat of orphaning as
well: ..."
This would give an actionable advice for the admins.
--
/ Alexander Bokovoy
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Security / Identity Management Engineering
Red Hat Limited, Finland
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