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.
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.
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.