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#408 Is the FE-Legal tracker bug being monitored at all?
Closed: no action needed by bcotton. Opened by decathorpe.

Closed: no action needed
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To give you some context, on May 2, 2022, I wrote:

On a related note:
I've had a package stuck in package review, because the reviewer
(rightfully) wanted clarification whether we could ship some files.
We blocked the FE-Legal bug in bugzilla on the review bug over a month
ago, but have not received any response yet, either.
Is that bug even still being monitored? Or is it no longer the correct
way to request legal review for something? If that is the case, what
is the correct way to do things?

@mattdm responded on May 3, 2022:

That's still the correct way. We're working on unsticking some things.
Again, I really appreciate your patience. If there are things which are both
immediate and urgent but not getting a response — or anything big or small
that isn't getting a response in an egegiously long time — please escalate
them to the Fedora Council (a ticket is fine) or to me directly (by whatever
channel).

(I could provide links to these messages in the mailing list archives, if needed.)

The reviewer marked the review bug in question RHBZ#2051229 as blocking the FE-Legal tracker bug on 2022-03-20.

It's now been over four months that this package, and other packages that depend on it, have been blocked from being added to Fedora. I think this is starting to qualify as an "egregiously long time".

I've created a topic on Fedora Discussion for this ticket.

Please keep this ticket focused. Discuss there, and record votes and decisions here. Thanks!

Metadata Update from @bcotton:
- Issue assigned to mattdm
- Issue priority set to: None (was: Needs Review)

A while back I seem to remember talking to @mattdm about having me informally taking on a role of trying to take care of FE-Legal, so I can try to start acting on that. I did recently unblock a Fedora package review that had been pending for some time.

Raising or re-raising the issue on the Fedora legal list might be a better way to get my attention quicker on something.

@ref My plan was to periodically review this and put it in the shared doc we have for Fedora Legal issues. However, that turns out to be a bad plan, which is obvious in retrospect, because it puts me as a blocker.

I think we could make it so a report of open items gets sent to the legal list periodically from bugzilla. That way people wouldn't have to both flag the issue and post about it to a list. Assuming we could set that up, should we?

In today's Council meeting, there was general agreement that there's no further action required here and this ticket can be closed. https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2022-09-28/council.2022-09-28-14.00.log.html#l-94

Metadata Update from @bcotton:
- Issue close_status updated to: no action needed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

I think we could make it so a report of open items gets sent to the legal list periodically from bugzilla. That way people wouldn't have to both flag the issue and post about it to a list. Assuming we could set that up, should we?

Sorry for the late response. Overall I would recommend against doing this but it's not a strong objection.
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