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#2205 Clarification needed: Orphan packages will be retired if they remain orphaned for six weeks
Closed: Accepted by zbyszek. Opened by churchyard.

Closed: Accepted
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If a package is orphaned for six weeks, do I retire it from rawhide only or also from branched?

If this is unknown, I suggest the following:

Orphaned packages are retired from master and Fedora branched (until the Beta freeze).

I don't remember if it was ever written down, but we always operated as you propose in the past. So +1

+1. We wouldn't want to keep the orphaned branch for a release if we can avoid it.

+1 to retire in branched too

APPROVED (+4,0,-0)

Should we document this at the policy page?
Edited by churchyard

Metadata Update from @churchyard:
- Issue tagged with: pending announcement

Yes, this should be documented explicitly.

Metadata Update from @churchyard:
- Issue assigned to churchyard

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https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers&type=revision&diff=550145&oldid=535808

Announced: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/WDT4Y3G64HTKCDUX7UTGMRHPQL7YK3WA/.

Metadata Update from @zbyszek:
- Issue close_status updated to: Accepted
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

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- Issue untagged with: pending announcement
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