On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:58:49AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:24:50AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:03:03AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > - it's difficult to keep track of who is caring for that package (hint: > > > QA, MIA, ...) > > > > Uh? Why? Your maintainer field seems to address this issue. In our > > scheme that's would be more a problem, but if the mailing list is > > responsive it's enough. Think for example at the debian-release mailing > > list: it's a list, but it's really responsive for all packages in the > > archive. So IMO not being able to identify a single person is not > > necessarily an indicator of unresponsiveness for a given package. > > What he means is that when people are listed automatically as > Maitnainer/Uploader, the fact that the package is well maintained may > hide that a particular DD do nothing at all, and is in fact MIA. >
That would be avoided by removing entry on the basis of the changelog containts. People who do not touch the package for +365 days would be removed. I think to propose this policy for DebianGis. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
