Hi, On 11.10.2012 07:50, Bart Martens wrote: >> - the submitter of the "intent to orphan" bug must Cc >> debian...@lists.debian.org, and file the bug with severity:serious (this >> was part of the "criterias" proposal). > | Anyone can mark a package as orphaned after the following steps have been > | completed : Someone submits an "intent to orphan" (ITO) in the bts with > an > | explanation of why he/she thinks that the package needs a new > maintainer.
I don't think "intend to orphan" (ITO) is a good name. First of all, it is wrong, because if you file such a bug, you eventually don't want to orphan a package, but quite the contrary revive its maintenance. Moreover, its name suggests it would be a WNPP bug, which it isn't and wouldn't be. Aside I welcome Lucas and your initiative to move on with this discussion. After all, I'm happy with any solution which finds consensus, but I still don't like the DD seconding for the reasons outlined before. At very least we could allow DMs to make votes too. Eventually it's just some key in a keyring which is required to authenticate people. Some additional thoughts on the seconding: * can we really be sure that random developers flying by, care enough to look into a package they may not care about, inspect its situation and ack/nack? The whole new mechanism could be bypassed by feedback timeout. Frankly, many packages which could be salvaged in future are not on of these which draw much attraction. * You cannot require a 3:1 majority without giving a time window to raise objections. The way Bart proposed it in his draft, one couldn't make sure a 3:1 majority is reached before 75% of *all* developers agreed for the opened case. I don't think that's desired or realistic. * How would you validate binding votes on a salvage process? You would need to require to send signed mails to the list for seconding. Otherwise we did not win anything over votes allowed by anyone. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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