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#11406 releng orphans maintained packages without any notification to maintainers
Closed: It's all good by kevin. Opened by abbra.

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This morning I woke up to releng orphaning bunch of packages that I maintain.

I have not received any notification about that in advance and I have not seen any reasoning for the orphaning. This looks like a pretty bad behavior.

Can someone explain why and how this has happened.

Affected packages lead to FreeIPA removal:
- oddjob
- cifs-utils
- java-1.8.0-openjdk
- augeas
- few more Java related

I have not orphaned those via https://pagure.io/releng/issue/9561

I skimmed over my local older copy of https://src.fedoraproject.org/extras/pagure_owner_alias.json

    "augeas": [
        "lutter",
        "mdbooth",
        "apevec"
    ],
    "oddjob": [
        "abbra",
        "nalin"
    ],

See https://pagure.io/find-inactive-packagers/issue/903 and https://pagure.io/find-inactive-packagers/issue/738

I suspect this will be the case for all listed packages. It was communicated on the devel announce list.

I found https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11271

This is weird.
from koji list-history

Wed Apr 26 08:32:53 2023 package owner changed for oddjob in f39 by bodhi
    owner.name: nalin -> orphan
Wed Apr 26 11:07:04 2023 package owner changed for oddjob in f38 by bodhi
    owner.name: nalin -> abbra

The latter change is mine -- I picked it back to avoid orphaning.

Yet, this looks like a bug in the inactive packagers' processing. A script should not switch the package to orphaned if an inactive packager is removed but there are still packagers to maintain the package.

It might be in owner-sync script on the bodhi side. I am looking into it.

This was https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11271
ie, the fesco approved policy about inactive package maintainers.

Sorry it came as a surprise. ;(

Metadata Update from @kevin:
- Issue close_status updated to: It's all good
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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