On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > > When I am in a similar situation, I tend to offer the person to join as > > co-maintainer. The patch is not very long and it should not be too hard > > to review. Or you can redirect him towards upstream if that's better. > > Upstream is dead: <http://hg.serpentine.com/netplug> 2010-06-26 > So basically I would need to maintain that patch ad infinitum. > And currently I don't have the time to become a new upstream, so my > rather harsh reply.
That's something that Pali deserved to know. He wrote a patch and he uses it, he could be the next upstream maintainer... who knows? I do the same mistake from time to time, but just because someone is on the other side of the bug report, doesn't mean that he should be considered only as a mere user. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130323084827.gb17...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com
