El Lunes 23 Mayo 2005 12:32, Jeroen van Wolffelaar escribió: > There is the MIA effort, led by myself, that does periodically look for > activity for all maintainers and inquire if activity is lacking. > However, this takes a bit of time, and also, it does benefit to have > tips about specific maintainers, because it is impossible to simply look > at all maintainers, one needs to rely on some heuristic to try to detect > inactive maintainers. > > The past half year or so there hasn't been much MIA activity from > myself, mainly because as Andrew Suffield mentions, this is not the time > for big changes, but more importantly, the release process at the moment > can beter benefit of attention. If you have specific > maintainers/packages, please send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also > http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp (and the archive page thereof) and look for > bugs submitted by Martin Michlmayr or myself, and you'll notice how many > packages actually get orphaned by this effort. It's just a tad slow > process, and if apparantly nobody cares enough to NMU and/or raise > issues with a package on some mailinglist, orphaning isn't of much use > to the user either -- the package probably ultimately gets removed then. > > I do plan to start up a more structural package checking effort after > Sarge is released, hopefully addressing at least part of your concerns. > > --Jeroen
However there are some developers who are not MIA, as they upload new versions, but they ignore bugs for months/years, maybe because a lack of time or other reasons. I understand that we can't force them to orphan their packages (or yes?), but at least the project should emphasize that orphaning a package or accepting a co-maintainer is not a reason to feel ashamed. On the contrary, it is a way to help Debian to advance, so they can be proud. Maybe a polite email from the MIA effort to maintainers with long-standing bugs (and no activity on them) could help. Something like: "Your package has the following long-standing bugs: #xxxx Description #yyyy Description Remember that Debian maintainers' obligations include to track and solve all bugs, not only RC-bugs. If you are in lack of time, please consider to accept a co-maintainer or to orphan the package." I think this would help to the health of the project. Regards, César
