Re: Inactive packager script notifications from fork

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Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2026-06-29 at 18:28 +0200, Jakub Čajka wrote:
> 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.
Yeah - I was wondering as well, the no-reply address really does not
make any sense with:

"Please, let us know if you're still interested in participating".

Not to mention linking an inaccessible issue.

> 
> 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)
> > 
> > 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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