On Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:37:19 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 11:43 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
I'd love to leave all these stuff away from my hands, honestly speaking, so it'd be great if Dave just takes over.
OTOH, I wonder why such an action like dropping from FACTORY isn't announced on the public ML like opensuse-factory before the actual execution.
Honestly, I simply did not think that something that could not even be installed for 6 months would be any problem.
And dropping an uninstallable leaf package is 'just noise' (in fact, it's not even a loss: it's not installable and removing it is just removing garbage)
Neverthreless, I think we'll rework the failur erporting bot to:
* * * As we already do * * * After 2 weeks of failure: send a notification to the maintainer After 3 weeks of failure: send a remainder
* * * NEW * * * After 5 weeks: Send a mail to -factory, claiming the package is still failing to build After 6 weeks: file a delete request
It's frankly speaking one of the most boring tasks I have to run after maintainers simply ignoring even personal notifications and remainders, disabling the OBS mails and not even looking at their packages in OBS.
So, having a strict 'auto-delete after 6 weeks' will certainly bring some sanity - and it makes the time lines clear.
If a Leaf-Package has been dropped, it can always be re-introduced after all.
Thanks, the above sounds better. And, I'm not against the action to drop a package itself, either. If it's broken for ages, it should be dropped, yes. The only point to announce more publicly is to avoid the unnecessary delete-and-revive cycle if anyone is willing to keep caring such a package (e.g. a case like this time). This should be rare, but still it's better than doing silently, IMO. Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org