Re: Inactive packager script notifications from fork

I have been around to write about it too, as it seemed to me as dev fork running wild with false positive. It happens :). Looking forward to postmortem.  
What worried me a bit and I hope is not a feature of the live process is an email from no-reply email address.

Jakub Čajka




Jun 29, 2026, 15:43 by [email protected]:

> I recently got some inactive packager notifications from what appears to be a fork of the inactive packager repo on forge.f.o
>
> I initially replied as though it was legitimate, but I'm now wondering if this isn't actually legit activity at all.
>
> It looks like the legitimate notifications and issues are in the packaging/find-inactive-packagers repo, but these ones that I received came from a fork with the following subject line:
>
> [jspaleta/find-inactive-packagers] Inactive packager detected for user ctubbsii (Issue #335)
>
> (And another one from a duplicate issue #228, both issues having subsequently been deleted or marked private apparently, since I can no longer see either)
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> Clearly the notification itself is a false positive, since I've had activity recently enough on bodhi, src, and devel@, that should have prevented me from being marked inactive.
>
> Does anybody know what's going on here? I'm thinking maybe people should be more careful about running this script from a fork? Or maybe the script itself should automatically detect that it's a fork and operate in dry run mode, without creating issues that tag people with false positives? But perhaps I'm misunderstanding and these were supposed to be legitimate notifications of inactivity? 
>
> Regards, 
> Christopher
>

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