On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:14:41AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, I'm afraid that the direction to go is: > > -reassign these bugs to adduser > > -find help for Marc
I would also accept a replacement instead of help. > I'm not fond of reassigning bugs to adduser because I know the > situation about this package and Marc desperately needing help to > maintain it. I do not have a problem with having bugs rotting away in the BTS. Usertags will help in sorting out the bugs. > Maybe time for another call for help for adduser (IIRC, you already > posted some, Marc). Yes, there was response about a rewrite in C, but the author of that rewrite decided to go a way I am not too fond about (not calling any backends but doing the work himself), and the effort seems to have kind of stalled. I have been receiving a lot of cleanup patches from Jörg Hoh, and he has received commit privileges to the SVN repository yesterday, but he doesn't intend to become DD in the foreseeable future. > I'm really sad that some of our > key packages cannot receive enough attention while we keep getting > bunch of crappy new packages noone cares about, in the archive. I am guilty of that as well, but I took over adduser because it needed work to do the job I wanted it to do - so that approach kind of worked. > If we go this way, I intend to post a message to -devel (or even > -devel-announce) with these ideas (probably not the "crappy packages" > part)...and do my best to have it published in DWN. Go ahead. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
