On 07.08.2013 13:09, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

I think a DR should be held off until the package does not build anymore. There is significant work involved getting a package back into Factory again, because it would count as a new package and thus shown up on legal-team's action list.

Actually not, the legal team keeps track of package names and its license. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 07.08.2013 13:39, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

On Wednesday 2013-08-07 13:36, Stephan Kulow wrote:

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On 07.08.2013 13:09, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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I think a DR should be held off until the package does not build anymore. There is significant work involved getting a package back into Factory again, because it would count as a new package and thus shown up on legal-team's action list.

Actually not, the legal team keeps track of package names and its license.

Still I believe that someone stumbling over an abandoned factory package is more likely to pick it up than were it only in the develprj.

That's a different argument Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

* Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar [2013-08-07 13:42]:

Quoting Jan Engelhardt :

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On Wednesday 2013-08-07 12:50, Guido Berhoerster wrote:

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Hi, is anyone interested in taking over zfs-fuse maintainership in Factory? If not, I'll send a deleterequest at the end of next week.

I think a DR should be held off until the package does not build anymore. There is significant work involved getting a package back into Factory again, because it would count as a new package and thus shown up on legal-team's action list.

Being scared of legal review is not a reason to keep a useless package in Factory. If, as Guido says (and I do trust him on this), the usecases for the package are no longer given, there is absolutely no reason to keep the package around.

If, at any future moment in time, it might be bumped to live in sync with the feature set expected, it can re-enter. And, frankly, the legal team is doing a great job at reviewing things... It's no longer an issue that blocks a package for weeks from entering Factory (besides, the package name very likely will keep on figuring in the databases they maintain.. so a direct lookup is still possible).

I'd just like to add to the above that my main rationale for removing it is that I no longer make use of it and that I think having a largely untested package in Factory is not a good idea, particularly in case of a filesystem. If anyone relies on it he can still use the package from the filesystems project.

@Guido: if you don't hear from any actual user about this, I would say go ahead and remove (maybe getting some feedback on non -factory ML might be in order, as that's where we could likely interact more with users)

I hope that potential maintainers read this list, but considering that people might be on vacation I can give it a bit more time until I get back on September 6th. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org