Marc Haber:
On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:23:19 +0100, Gioele Barabucci <gio...@svario.it> wrote:This branch of the discussion started by pointing out the fact that some maintainers _do_ in fact orphan their packages to remove the "feeling of being responsible", and then go on maintaining these packages.Its a way to visibly say "I'll do the job until the second someone else shows up". Greetings Marc
The "I'll do the job until the second someone else shows up" sounds close to RFA (Request For Adoption).
Maybe we can do with a variant like OFA (Open For Adoption), which does not have the "lingering ownership" that RFA has. For some RFA still has a sense of "I can choose who to pass the package on to". The proposal here would be that OFA was "If you want to maintain this package, just upload it with a new maintainer". In my world, it would be combined with Low NMU Threshold / QA upload semantics for drive-by fixes, since the maintainer is supposedly not very attached to the package.
Best regards, Niels
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