Hi,
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:21:13AM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> 2013/12/16 Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org>:
> >>> Thanks for working on xbmc. BTW, Are you in touch with Andres about that?
> >> I tried to reach him and team-x...@lists.launchpad.net several times
> >> without success.
> >> Now the MIA Team is tracking him, too.
> >> Unfortunately it takes ~10 weeks to have his packages orphaned and then I
> >> can
> >> adopt and update xbmc and libcec (a dependency of xbmc).
> >
> > Are you part of XBMC-Team ? If so simply list yourself in the Uploaders
> > field.
> No, I tried to reach them several times, but none of the _Launchpad_
> team members replied.
That's probably a drawback of small teams and even worse small teams
maintaining their stuff somewhere else than alioth.debian.org. In
Debian Med and Debian Science we insist on having packages maintained at
alioth.debian.org and there are written policies how to maintain
packages. If I would be a member of Debian Multimedia I would insist in
some similar workflow and actively invite people to join Debian
Multimedia which gives more flexibility. Waiting for some artifical
time span (be it ~10 weeks or even ~10 days) before you can start doing
something sucks.
> I'm working [1] with the upstream developers and when they are OK with
> the package I plan
> uploading it.
Fine. I'd recommend creating a clone in pkg-multimedia Git do the
needed changes and keep xbmc maintainers as Uploaders. Just inform them
about changes and recommend them to import the changes from the clone.
In case they really turn out as beeing MIA you have done all needed
preparation as well as a functional VCS which makes you independent from
a non-existing team.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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