d Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:19:45PM -0400, Matthias Julius a écrit : > "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Automatically orphaning such packages has problems as Russel pointed out, > > but a "needs co-maintainers"/"needs hijacking" list of packages where > > DD's can be more aggressive in jumping/taking over in seems a good idea > > IMO. > > You could allow and encourage NMUs for bugs of priority less than > important that are more than 6 months old.
Hi all, at some point, something has to be done. Having pacakges maintained only by NMU is not healthy... Yesterday, we had a discussion on the debian-med list, and the outcome was that there was an intersting proposition of enhancement of a package. Now here is its status : - Previous upload : 2005 - out of the 8 packages of the maintainer, 5 are NMUed. Another one has not changed since Sarge. - The package we are interseted in have two patches in the BTS, one of them has a "Thanks for the patch" answer at the end of 2006. The maintainer is not MIA, but does not actively develop anymore. The package has eight open bugs of severity normal or higher. We submitted a wishlist bug. What will happen ? I guess nothing. How long will we wait if the maintainer does not answer quickly ? I guess that we will wait the time necessary to be busy doing something else and not having the time to care anymore. There are many examples like this where the momentum is lost because before doing anything to a package of somebody else, one must be sure that it is really rotting dead. Although they are not perfect, the proposals posted on -devel which aim at not letting packages fossilize are in my opinion crucial to the survival of Debian. Packages which are not actively developoped and whose maintainer is not currently active should be instantly hijackable, preferably by teams. Would somebody take care of the packages I created, I would not feel like being robbed. It would give me extra time to pursue long-term goals at the project level. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
