On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:07:30 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> There has been a bit of talk about Apache Zookeeper recently by Thomas > > >> Koch. He has a bad opinion of Zookeeper and things it is "not good > > >> enough for Debian". > > > > > > Could you please provide a reference? > > > > How about this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/06/msg00316.html > > Ah, now I understand the whole deal better. It's making some more sense to me too. > I won't judge zookeeper, but it is pretty clear it is about to be > orphaned, and that it needs a new team maintaining the Debian package if > it is to remain in Debian. > > It *is* too complex a package, it is not the kind of thing to foster on > Debian QA. It will have to be dropped if a new maintainer doesn't step up > eventually. As outlined in Henrique's previous post, the first thing which any new maintainer team (and I do think it needs to be a team) must do is fix the FTBFS bug. "Eventually" isn't good enough IMHO. I agree with Henrique that leaving zookeeper in unstable would be OK IF there was an active maintainer and #626020 was fixed. The package already claims to be team maintained (pkg-java-maintainers) but nobody from that team has spoken up here. (CC'd). #626020 has already been open for a month. If it stays open another month, I will file a bug for removal of zookeeper from testing. I don't see any other option. However, if there is no response from the existing team in the logs for #626020 before that stage and no new team has shown signs of activity on that bug report either, then I will seek removal from unstable because the only real option would be to orphan the package as unmaintained, at which point removal from unstable becomes inevitable. Without active maintenance *and* a fix for #626020, there is already sufficient justification to remove zookeeper from testing and unstable. If #626020 is fixed by someone who is not willing to maintain it long term, it's still less than ideal. If #629856 is fixed without an active team appearing for zookeeper, there is no reason to keep zookeeper around - even in unstable. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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