On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 07:13:06PM +0100, peter green wrote: > Nearly 3 months ago there was a mass bug filing on packages with dead > alioth lists as maintainer. Many of these bugs are still open with no > maintainer response > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?include=subject%3Alists.alioth.debian.org;submitter=debian.axhn%40manchmal.in-ulm.de > > What should be done about these in the event that the maintainers don't > sort it out? is it reasonable to make a NMU promoting the first > co-maintainer to maintainer? is it reasonable to make a NMU orphaning the > package? (and if-so should the list of co-maintainers be left in place?) > In either case should a final warning be sent to the package's > co-maintainers?
A side effect of these bugs is a query: "is anyone still maintaining this?". Thus, it feels really wrong to NMU to falsely claim so. Unlike single-person maintainers where there's MIA (which still doesn't detect a person active elsewhere but neglecting the package), there's no real way to detect an AWOL team. Except this. Thus, we have a nice list of no longer active teams. That's good, we should make this happen more often. So, what about sending a warning now then orphaning in, say, 3-6 months from now? Meow. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ So a Hungarian gypsy mountainman, lumberjack by day job, ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ brigand by, uhm, hobby, invented a dish: goulash on potato ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ pancakes. Then the Polish couldn't decide which of his ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ adjectives to use for the dish's name.
