Bug 1826528

Summary:	Non-responsive maintainer check for mruprich
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robbie Harwood <rharwood>
Component:	telnet	Assignee:	Michal Ruprich <mruprich>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	luhliari, mruprich, msekleta
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Description Robbie Harwood 2020-04-21 21:32:42 UTC

This bug is part of the non-responsive maintainer procedure for mruprich, following https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers/.

Please respond if you are still active in Fedora and want to maintain telnet, rdist, and rsh.

Comment 1 Michal Ruprich 2020-04-22 05:57:43 UTC

Hi Robbie,

is this really necessary? You see that I am from Red Hat, you could have contacted me directly. There are a lot of things that I do as a maintainer and the fact that I didn't respond to your bugs does not really mean anything. If you would have looked at the list of my opened bugs that you sent to Fedora-devel list, you would have noticed my activity a couple of days ago. No need to start this process really.

Comment 2 Robbie Harwood 2020-04-23 14:34:52 UTC

I think I captured the "why" in my message to you and fedora-devel, but contacting you is hard, so I'll restate here.

I initiated the process because you ignored my bugs and requests for information - which you are expected to provide per https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Package_maintainer_responsibilities/

I don't see why I should have to email you separately.  Bugzilla *already* sends email notifications.  Here's the timeline from my perspective for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1815163 :
                                                                                                         
- Due to handling a CVE with you around telnet-server, I became aware that we ship telnet-server at all.  On 2020-03-19, I file the bug                                        
requesting its removal.                                                                                  
                                                                                                         
- Three weeks later, after receiving no response to what should be an easy request, I offer a patch on 2020-04-09 (and NEEDINFO).                                                   
                                                                                                         
- Twelve days later, *still* receiving no response, I carry out the process for what we do in Fedora when maintainers don't respond.                                         
                                                                                                         
- Almost immediately, I have a reply.                                                                      
                                                                                                         
This is not how we "deal with reported bugs in a timely manner" as our package maintainers are expected to do.  So yes, non-responsive check is absolutely appropriate - especially because it produced the desired outcome of you responding.  I can understand missing the notification that a bug was opened, but bugzilla emailed you *every day for more than four weeks* that you had pending NEEDINFO and you ignored it.