deji has not responded to bug #1098680 for over a month. The bug contains a patch which I'd like to see applied since it is blocking some of my (upcoming) package reviews.
Besides the attempts through bugzilla, I have also tried contacting deji (as well as the comaintainer lrm29) directly via email, as well as posted on fedora-devel [1]. None of those attempts were successful.
I see that deji is maintainer of a couple of high-profile packages [2], so it is unfortunate that he is unresponsive. It would probably be worth to double-check whether really no-one knows how to reach him. fedora-active-user gives {{{ Last login in FAS: deji 2014-05-20 Last action on koji: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 package list entry created: xiphos in epel7 by pkgdb [still active] Last package update on bodhi: 2014-03-06 02:15:44 on package bibletime-2.10.0-1.fc19 }}} In the case his packages do need to be reassigned, I would be willing to take over scotch.
the process you need to follow is listed at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Policy_for_nonresponsive_package_maintainers your next step is "After other 7 days (now 3 weeks total), the reporter posts a formal request to the Fedora devel list with the bug link, indicating all reasonable efforts to contact the maintainer have failed and that they wish to take over the package."
Then a FESCo member can ack it
Uhm ok, but just for clarification: does a fesco ticket need to be filed at all? Asking because last time I only posted on -devel and then was told to file a ticket.
Anyhow, request posted on -devel [1].
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/200446.html
I've acked this on the devel list, but there's a short delay to get pkgdb up to handling mass orphaning correctly. Hopefully this will be done in the next week or so.
Sorry for the delay.
ok. Finally this is done. The following packages are looking for new point of contact on at least one branch:
{{{ atlas babl bibletime cln clucene exaile exempi galternatives gegl gparted grads libctl libibverbs libmlx4 libmthca libqalculate mpich mpich2 nautilus-actions ncview netcdf o3read qalculate-gtk qalculate-kde scotch screenruler strigi sword texmaker tokyocabinet tracker wiggle xcompmgr xesam-tools xiphos zeitgeist zeitgeist-datahub }}}
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